Inhibitory control is the ability to control your behavior in order to respond appropriately. It involves resisting temptation and impulsivity. It is being able to take into consideration the time, place and effect your behavior may have before acting on it. Inhibitory control is a necessary skill to have when working to achieve long-term goals. It is a skill that works to resist the type of impulses that would obtain an immediate reward, but would have kept you from achieving long-term success. Inhibitory Control includes self-control, impulse control, emotional control and movement control. In classrooms this could look like a student resisting the urge to mess around with their friends in order to get work done so they do not have to take it home. It could be seen in a child's ability to respect others' personal space, and avoiding behaviors like interrupting. Or it could be a child avoiding the stimuli around them in order to focus their attention on the teacher's instruction or a task at hand. The stimuli a child is trying to block out could come in many forms, such as a another class walking down the hallway, a student tapping their pencil behind them, or a class playing out on the playground as viewed through the classroom window. Inhibitory control allows us to set priorities to block out stimuli, maintain self-control, avoid temptation and resist impulsive behavior.