What are brain drain, icy water, tapping, earplugs, belly breathing
100
Performance / Anxiety Axis
What is low/high anxiety and how it affects performance on a test
100
Consolidation
What is the brain process involved in moving information from short-term to long term memory
100
Thesis
What is the main point or argument of your essay?
100
Thought Speed
What is three times faster than speaking speed? (125 vs. 375)
200
Alarmists
What are students obsessing about the exam before it starts?
200
Three areas where anxiety reveals itself
What are physiological, cognitive and behavioral?
200
Interleaved Study
What is mixing up the order of what you are learning (example: professional pitches to batters or flight simulation)
200
Evidence in an essay
What are the details that effectively support your thesis?
200
Intonation
What are volume, pauses, and cadence?
300
Three Times Through Method
What is the strategy of going through an exam three times. First, answer everything you are most certain about. Second, work on the more challenging questions. Third, guess if you have to on the ones remaining.
300
Physiological symptoms of stress (name at least 3)
What are increased heart rate, shakiness, shallow breathing, queasy, hot or cold hands, clammy feeling
300
Percentage of study time that should be devoted to retrieval.
What is 60%
300
Audience for a college essay
What is your peers in the same class?
300
Silver Dollar System
What is a method for identifying the most important ideas in a set of lecture notes?
400
Strategies the Week Before an Exam (name at least 3)
What are studying at the test site, short and active retrieval sessions, visiting with the professor, and reviewing previous exams?
400
Question to ask yourself when stress and worry are high.
What can I do in the here and now to address this situation?
400
Active Retrieval
What is low stakes, self-quizzing?
400
Funnel Introduction
What is a broad, less effective way to begin a summary?
400
Mind Mapping
What is a note taking system based on emotion and personal connections?
500
Early birds
What are students who finish a test quickly and can undermine your confidence?
500
The times it takes for something to become a habit.
What is 21-27 times?
500
Active Study (at least 3 methods)
What is self-quizzing (retrieval)
flashcards
practice problems
elaboration/teaching
diagrams
mind maps
500
Signal Phrases
What are effective terms to use in a summary, including "according to Dweck . . ." "the study found . . ." "The article explains how . . ."
500
What is the Cornell Q System for Note taking?
What is a system that includes using lecture notes for developing potential exam questions and a summary? Wide margins for questions and self-quizzing.