{"id":79239,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/elements-of-executive-control-during-driving\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:25","slug":"elements-of-executive-control-during-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/elements-of-executive-control-during-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements of executive control during driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Components of executive control related to the driving process:<br \/>\n1) Planning and decision-making: the ability to develop navigation strategies, determine safe routes and evaluate different options while driving.<br \/>\n2) Cognitive flexibility: the ability to quickly adjust behavior in the event of unforeseen situations &#8211; a sudden stop of a car or a sudden traffic jam.<br \/>\n3) Emotional regulation: Controlling anger, tension, or anxiety caused by road conditions to ensure safe and controlled behavior.<br \/>\n4) Regulation of attention and working memory: focusing on important information (road signs and vehicle trajectories), as well as recalling previous knowledge and experience to make immediate decisions.<br \/>\n5) Self-control: constantly evaluating the effectiveness of behavior on the road and correcting mistakes while driving or interacting with other road users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Components of executive control related to the driving process: 1) Planning and decision-making: the ability to develop navigation strategies, determine safe routes and evaluate different options while driving. 2) Cognitive flexibility: the ability to quickly adjust behavior in the event of unforeseen situations &#8211; a sudden stop of a car or a sudden traffic jam. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}