To go or not to go: inhibitory control in ‘hard to manage’ children

By Marcia Brophy, Eric Taylor, C. Hughes. 2002

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Executive functions and school readiness intervention: Impact, moderation, and mediation in the Head Start REDI program (2008, background): “These findings are consistent with the findings of Brophy et al. (2002), who found that hard to manage 4- year-olds did not differ from their normative peers on cognitive performance tasks assessing set shifting or working memory skills.”
Executive function and the promotion of social–emotional competence (2006, background): “…al., 2000), that executive deficits at age 4 predicted negative behavior at age 5 (Hughes et al., 2001), and that children classified as “hard to manage” at age 4 continued to be more likely than controls to commit both rule violations as well as perseverative errors at age 7 (Brophy et al., 2002).”
Cognitive Flexibility, Approaches to Learning, and Academic School Readiness in Head Start Preschool Children (2011, background): “Studies suggest that executive functions are involved in a broad range of cognitive and behavioral processes critical to daily functioning; deficits in these skills have been implicated in developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, and behavior problems (Brophy, Taylor, & Hughes, 2002 ; Pen”