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Brain Needs Answers

8. Executive Function of ‘Control Centre’ skills:

▪ Working Memory;

▪ Thinking Speed;

▪ Flexible Thinking;

▪ Attention Control;

▪ Impulse Control;

▪ Emotional & Energy Regulation.

o Related skills:
▪ organization, sequencing & prioritizing;

▪ using time, task initiation;
▪ social cognition, empathy.

9. ‘Cups of Need’ is the model used to explain people’s different

levels of need. It shows different sized cups which need to be

filled ‘just right’ in order to feel ok and be at our best.

10. The Big 5C Needs are:

Comfortable in my body (physically/sensory), Connected (cared for and liked),

Count (that I matter and have status), Capable (I can do well in this ) and have
a sense of Control (over what happens to me and things around me).