Stress
common symptoms of stress
What is overwhelm, difficulty sleeping, irritability or angry outbursts?
3 common learning styles
What are visual, auditory, and tactile
Moods that are sometimes symptoms of stress.
What are: anger, anxiety, and sadness?
Ideal length of an intensive study session
What is 30-45 minutes?
Chronic stress
What type of stress can seem never ending, i.e. stress of a bad relationship or job; can also be the effects of childhood and current trauma?
The strategy of recording yourself answering questions and then listen to the recording (what type of learning style?)
What is an auditory learning style strategy?
3 unhealthy coping strategies
What are:
Isolating
Overeat (or eat poorly)
Shopping, spending $
Stay up late
“Doom scrolling”
Use alcohol/drugs in excess
Self harm
Push people away
Other unsafe behaviors (violence, drinking & driving, fighting)
Types of multi-tasking that research shows negatively affects work/study results.
What is social media, texting, web browsing?
Acute Stress
What type of stress is very short term, most often encountered in day-to-day, and can be positive
Color coding things
What is a strategy for visual learning style?
3 healthy Coping Strategies
What are:
Create study schedules, focus on time/work, not results
Self care: meditation, exercise, eating healthy, get enough sleep
Get out in nature
Seek support: reach out to school teacher, friends, family, counselor
Spend time in nature
Make commitment to go to class
Type of learning where people remember 70-90% vs. learning where they remember 10-50%.
What is active (say, write, do) vs. passive learning (read, hear, see)?
societal causes of stress
What are racism, implicit bias, sexism and homophobia?
tapping pencil, shaking your foot or holding onto something while learning
What is a tactile learning style strategy?
Top 2 mental health challenges experienced by 18-22 year old community college students as reported in a recent study?
What are Depression and anxiety?
Spacing out your studying over shorter periods of time over several days and weeks
What is distributed practice?