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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

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

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

Executive search firms refer to employment agencies, often also called headhunters, that specialize in placing applicants i

Exemplar model refers to a concept learning model that assumes that people learn and remember the best examples of a concept, then compare new instances with these examples. (see Prototype model.)
Exemplar view of concepts refers to the idea that a concept consists of mental representations of actual instances or examp

Exemplars refer to typical representatives of a category