Chapters 1-4

Higher Education

100

Mental energy that directs behavior

Motivation

200

Factors that come from inside yourself; the values that give you a sense of self-worth

Internal motivators

300

Mental or physical work you apply
toward a goal

Effort

400

Ability to recover from challenges and mistakes, learn from them, and move forward

Resilience

500

Practice of taking someone else’s work and passing it off work as your own

Plagiarism (or academic dishonesty)

Time management

100

Time you use to take care of yourself

Maintenance time

200

Blocks of time that you commit specifically for a dedicated activity

Committed time

300

Time that remains after maintenance time and committed time responsibilities have been met

Discretionary time

400

Looking ahead to see what will happen in the coming weeks and scheduling everything you need to do between now and then

Planning backwards

500

Act of delaying acting on important priorities

procrastination

procrastinating

MCC facts

100

Mott community college's mascot

Bears

Brown bear

200

This is the man Mott was named after

Charles Stewart Mott

300

The year the first class of what would become Mott Community college was held

1923

400

Mott has satellite campuses in these cities (name one)

Lapeer

Clio

Fenton

Owosso

(Flint)

500

MCC’s upscale casual restaurant/teaching laboratory in downtown Flint

Applewood

Reading

100

Ability to store the information you read in your long-term memory

Retention

200

Ability to process and understand the meaning of what you read

Reading comprehension

300

Distractions that originate from your environment

External distraction

400

Reading not just for retention and comprehension, but also analyzing what is read

Active reading

500

Act of skimming the headings, notes, side text, or other high-level information

Previewing

Note Taking

100

The most common style of note taking

Outline

200

One way to speed up note taking (give one)

use abbreviations

use symbols

do not write everything

skip lines and fill it in later

300

Per Kenneth Kiewra, lecture notes taken by first year students only contain this percentage of critical information.

11

400

Researchers found that if important information was contained in notes, it had this percentage chance of being remembered.

34

500

Studies on memory have shown that, without review, this percentage of what a person has just learned is forgotten in the first twenty minutes

47