Cognitive Planning and Executive Functions

J.P. Das is an Indo-Canadian psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in Intelligence. Among his major contributions to psychology is the PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive) theory of intelligence. He is currently engaged in expanding planning to include executive functions. What might be the implications of these higher mental activities for education as well as management behavior is the topic of this book. Professor Das is an Emeritus Director of the Centre on Developmental & Learning Disabilities (named after him) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Psychology. He has authored and co-authored over a dozen of books and contributed more than 300 research papers to international journals and edited volumes. His earlier published titles with SAGE include Cognitive Planning: The Psychological Basis of Intelligent Behaviour (1996, co-authored with Binod C. Kar and Rauno K. Parrila); The Working Mind (1998); Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers (2009); and Consciousness Quest: East Meets West (2014).   Sasi B. Misra is Institute Professor, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Gandhinagar since 2004. At EDI, he is the Editor of The Journal of Entrepreneurship; Chair, Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CREED). He (with Kanungo) has advanced the Theory of Human Resourcefulness (1992) and has published with Sherry Chand Institution Building: An International Perspective on Management Education (1999). He has over 50 research papers in academic and professional journals of repute.  

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: CONCEPTS
Cognitive Planning in the Context of PASS Theory
Models of Planning: Past and Current
II: PLANNING AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND THE BRAIN
Deconstructing Executive Functions
Executive Functions, Planning, and Intelligence: Can Brain Localization Help?
III: ATTENTION, PLANNING AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS: ASSESSMENT
Separating Planning and Attention
Assessments: History and Selected Studies
Planning and Executive Function Tests: Ready for Use
IV: APPLICATIONS IN MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
Rational and Irrational in Managerial Behaviour
Cognitive Competence and Managerial Behaviour
The Influence of Emotions and Will
V: ENHANCEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND DECISION MAKING
Planning in Writing : Compositions and Oral Narratives
Verbalization Enhances Planning: Application in Education
Math Learning
Two Programs for Cognitive Strategy Training
Planning and Decision Making: Training for Enhancement
Revisits and Reprise
Bibliography
Index