Time Management
The Writing Process
Memory
Exam Prep and The Brain
Miscellaneous
100
A Concentration Score Sheet is a technique for reducing these.
What are internal distractions?
100
This component of the writing pyramid of concerns addresses grammar and punctuation.
What are conventions?
100
Memories that are stored temporarily as part of a passive process.
What are short-term memories?
100
Organizing exam-related information systematically is one of the most helpful things a student can do to prepare for this.
What is an exam?
100
Physiological, Cognitive, Behavioral.
What are the three parts or components of anxiety?
200
Carrying pocket allows you to use this time management practice effectively.
What is hidden time?
200
This element of the "Writing Pyramid of Concerns" addresses the style of citations and other structural elements (APA, MLA, etc.)
What is format?
200
This part of memory is tied to words and speech.
What is the phonological loop?
200
To assess knowledge gained from class, to provide feedback that might influence career goals, to determine if you are prepared for more advanced work in a discipline, to motivate learning and reward mastery.
What are the purposes for giving exams in college?
200
21 - 27 consecutive times.
How many times does a behavior need to be completed before it becomes a habit?
300
Finding a workshop, minimizing visual distractions, reducing noise, and using the spider technique help reduce these.
What are external distractions?
300
This element of the "Writing Pyramid of Concerns" addresses the way you layout your thoughts.
What is organization?
300
Memories that involve a synthesis of short and long-term memory; an active an immediate process.
What is working memory?
300
This barrier keeps potentially harmful infections out of the brain.
What is the blood/brain barrier?
300
You must have some of this (but not too much) in order to perform well on an exam.
What is anxiety?
400
Positive reinforcement (receiving a high grade, despite putting something off) is a principal contributor to this.
What is procrastination?
400
These 2 elements of the "Writing Pyramid of Concerns" addresses the main point you're trying to convey plus the evidence you provide to back up that point.
What are the thesis and support?
400
Analogous to an artist's sketchpad or the mind's eye, involves visual and spatial memory.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
400
This part of the brain forms new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
400
This is an opportunity to "try out" an employer or field and gain practical experience related to your degree and career.
What is an internship?
500
Praising the work you have done is one way to help resolve this reason for procrastination.
What is perfectionism?
500
This element of the "Writing Pyramid of Concerns" addresses the expectations of the assignment. (What the professor has asked you to write about.)
What is responsiveness?
500
Memory that lasts anywhere from a few minutes up to a lifetime.
What is long-term memory?
500
The brain's process of transferring information into memory.
What is encoding?
500
Questioning, reflecting, processing, and considering are components of this type of thinking.
What is critical thinking?
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