The comparison of gifted and normal children between the ages of 6-8 under the context of age, intelligence and willpower/emotional control education

This study has been realized in order to have examined the administrative functions of individual which is considered to include great part of characteristic aspects related to his or her freedom psychologically from the point of different variables. Executive functions include cognitive processes such as problem solving, changing behaviour under the light of new information, developing new strategies, planning, inhibition, emotional control, initiate, organizing, time-management, working memory, metacognition (Dowson and Guare, 2010).In this study, children between age 6 and 8 have taken as samples and collected datas about their executive functions by BRIEF. It has been seen that those variables have maken differences on executive functions and determined that education could be effective.Furthermore, it has been mentioned the necessity to describe some characteristic aspects which are considered within executive functions in psychology together with other aspects to be added to them within its own field under a fundamental concept; also it has been argued the need for the concept of ?willpower? which is intensively discussed in philosophy but seldomly seen its attributions in psychology. Moreover, the role of education in the improvement of executive functions as well as some suggestions have been evaluated. Key Words:Executive functions, Willpower, Education, Inhibition, Initiate, Emotional control, Gifted Children.