1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910163939503321

Titolo

Executive functions in children's everyday lives : a handbook for professionals in applied psychology / / edited by Maureen J. Hoskyn, Grace Iarocci, Arlene R. Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-066464-9

0-19-066463-0

0-19-998087-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Classificazione

PSY004000PSY008000

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Child psychology

Cognition in children

Psychology, Applied

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction to Executive Functions in Young Children -- Maureen Hoskyn, Grace Iarocci, and Arlene R. Young -- <strong>Part One: Executive Functions and Children's Development</strong> -- 2. Executive Functioning: A Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective -- Katie Knapp and J. Bruce Morton -- 3. Assessing Executive Functions in Young Children -- Arlene R. Young, Mandeep K. Gurm, and Katherine A. O'Donnell -- 4. Sports as a Metaphor for Understanding the Development of Executive Function and Mis-function -- Jacob A. Burack, Colin Campbell, Oriane Landry, and Mariëtte Huizinga -- 5. Executive Functioning Helps Children Think About and Learn About Others' Mental States -- Jeannette E. Benson and Mark A. Sabbagh -- 6. Parenting and Young Children's Executive Function Development -- Annie Bernier, Diane St-Laurent, Célia Matte-Gagné, Tristan Milot, Stuart I. Hammond, and Jeremy I. M. Carpendale -- 7. Transition to School: Executive Function, Emergent Academic Skills, and Early School Achievement -- Ulrich Müller, Michael Miller, Sarah Hutchison, and Kayla Ten Eycke -- <strong>Part Two: Diversity in the Development of



Executive Functions</strong> -- 8. The Bilingual Advantage: Evidence and Alternative Views -- J. Bruce Morton and Stephanie M. Carlson -- 9. Executive Functions and Plurilingualism in Young Children -- Maureen Hoskyn -- 10. Executive Functions and the Developing Social Competence of Children with ASD -- Grace Iarocci and Emily Gardiner -- 11. The Assessment of Executive Functions in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Performance-Based Measures Versus Ratings of Behavior -- Maggie E. Toplak, Richard F. West, and Keith E. Stanovich.

Sommario/riassunto

'Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives' captures the diversity and complexity of the executive system that underlies children's everyday life experiences. Acquisition of executive functions, such as interpreting communication cues and the perspectives of others, is foundational to and a function of children's early social and communicative competencies.