What is executive functioning?

What is executive functioning?

A minimum of 150 words each question and References (questions #1-4) KEEP QUESTION WITH ANSWER

1. What is executive functioning? How does age affect this?

2. Please watch the TED talk at

 https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_genova_what_you_can_do_to_prevent_alzheimer_s

and let us know what you think.

3 Here is a really interesting video about memory and attention as they are related to eyewitness testimony. I usually show this to my ground general psychology students, but I believe this is beneficial here as well. It is interactive, so be ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWO2UQ4MW7U

We already know that eyewitness testimony is generally unreliable, but what about older people as eyewitnesses? Does the reliability go down even more?

4 Please define and differentiate between implicit memory and explicit memory.