i don’t really know if changing the name of the executive function would be of any help i think education is best and attention must be explained for  what it is  cause it’s a tricky but easy to grasp concept   atttention is  better understood if you think of it as a hand lamp it has a certain powerintensity of light this is what is understood as attention for most people but it is just one characteristic of it  this wattage light brightness is almost the same for all people if not if it fluctuates or even decreases you are not adhd you are walking into a commasince it is the first step in neurological deterioration  but let’s return to the light produced by the lamp it has other characteristics it can be directed voluntarily toward some object it can be maintained on that object for some time and it can also be concentrated on some point with the associated loss of peripheric lighting power as in a stage light in a theatre  is on this 3 later properties of the lampattention  where the deficit lies and i remark deficit since it is not a lack of these properties it’s like the lamp is pinned to something but has a very loose pin it can be directed  oh yeah but it also reacts to minor stimulus and tend to change position something that a more tightly held lamp would not do and thus tends to distract its light to any interesting sight and not keep in something that might became a little bit boring unless the stimuli is so interesting that no other is greater that’s why non adhd people are puzzled by someone who sometimes function perfectly and others in such disfunction even a dog is quicker to do his job they interpret it as “ i know heshethem can put attention as did in the beginning  new stimuli or the fast paced project heshethem was so excited of personal interest don’t understand why heshethem can’t be on time or can’t do this very silly work  classifying papers as quick as the others even a monkey can do that”  few people will grasp the concept if it is not explained but is fairly simple to do so it may be the easiest executive function to explain  so changing the name does not change things from the root prejudice and misconceptions soon take the new term as a flag as it can be showed in the manic-depressive name shift towards bipolar and the use by common people to describe emotional disregulation lability or inestabilidad  proper of many personality disorders but not of bipolar disorder    hope it might be of help  sorry if this post is not well written english is not my first language and i had the typical night of an adhd  where you can shut your brain off and keep thinking on all sort of matters   this free short course from king’s college london  ranked world 2nd in psychiatry on adhd with a historical and educational focus directed to non mental health professionals might be of interest  adhd kcl free course