Glossary E

Exclusivity refers to a shutting out of others for elitist reasons.

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Excoriation is denuding of the skin; often seen in those who engage in compulsive hand washing.

In psychology, execution refers to the act of carrying out a task or behavior. It involves the process of planning, organizing, and implementing actions to achieve a goal or desired outcome. Execution is an essential component of many areas of psychology, including cognitive psychology, social psychology, and organizational psychology..

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Executive control processes refer to the processes involved in regulating attention and in determining what to do with information just gathered or retrieved from long-term memory.

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Executive function refer to the processes involved in regulating attention and in determining what to do with information just gathered or retrieved from long-term memory. Executive function refer to the set of advanced cognitive processes involved in cognitive control, attention, judgment, and critical thinking

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Executive functioning refers to cognitive abilities such as abstract thinking, planning, organizing, and carrying out of behaviors. It also includes several cognitive capacities, including the ability to reject irrelevant information, formulate complex hypothetical arguments, organize an approach to a complex task, and follow a sequence of steps to task completion. Executive functioning is usually associated with advances in the development of the prefrontal cortex.

Executive functions refers to the higher Order regulatory and supervisory functions that researchers believe are subserved, in part, by the frontal lobes. Cognitive operations such as

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Executive planning refers to the higher Order problem solving necessary for the generation and organization of Behavior to achieve a goal. Executive planning requires the ability to a

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