Whether EF gains are seen depends on the amount of time children spend doggedly practicing and pushing themselves to improve¶

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q2 i? EF gains depend on time spent doggedly working on the skills, pushing to improve, consistent with deliberate-practice accounts. → Diamond Adele 2012

Evidence¶

Diamond Adele 2012¶

Diamond Adele. (2012). Activities and Programs That Improve Children's Executive Functions. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721412453722

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Narrative review principle attributed to Klingberg et al. (2005) and framed as consistent with Ericsson's deliberate-practice findings and Vygotsky's zone of proximal development; no effect size is printed.

"Whether EF gains are seen depends on the amount of time children spend doggedly working on these skills, pushing themselves to improve (Klingberg et al., 2005)."

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