Test Taking Skills
1. To show your professor you know the material
2. To prepare you for the workplace
Are two reasons we do this.
What is take tests?
This type of learner does better when they hear the lecture and can tape record it for studying.
What is an auditory learner?
You appealed to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.
The flaw in this argument is that the popularity of an idea has absolutely no bearing on its validity.
If it did, then the Earth would have made itself flat for most of history to accommodate this popular belief.
What is the bandwagon?
________________ staff are available seven days a week to help answer general questions about the college, connect you to other employees who may assist you, and resolve student and employee technology issues.
What is MCC Connect ?
This is the LMS for MCC.
What is Schoology?
Although very few students love this, it does serve a purpose. It helps you:
What is homework?
Learn to say "no", prioritize, focus, create a "To Do" list, find your motivation, create a schedule are just some of these.
What are time management tips?
The Idea that most people overestimate their abilities.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
1. Abuse of resources
2. Cheating
3. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism
4. Stealing
5. fabrication
What is academic dishonesty?
If you don't show up to any class on the first day at MCC you earn this.
What is a Z score?
For this type of test you can:
Play Devil's Advocate by restating the question in it's opposite form and
use the same strategies you'd use for a multiple-choice test.
What is true/false?
What is taking notes?
A ______ _______ is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument.
What is a logical fallacy?
____ __________is a broad term encompassing any unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature that is committed without consent or by force, intimidation, coercion, or manipulation. The term includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, and sexual intimidation as those behaviors are described later in this section.
What is sexual misconduct?
You are this type of learner if you need to touch, feel and/or interact with the material; another name for this is a tactile learner.
What is a kinesthetic learner?
What is multiple choice?
This note taking method is effective because the main points, details, study cues, and summary are all written in one place.
What are Cornell notes?
You cherry-picked a data cluster to suit your argument, or found a pattern to fit a presumption.
This 'false cause' fallacy is coined after a marksman shooting randomly at barns and then painting bulls eye targets around the spot where the most bullet holes appear, making it appear as if he's a really good shot. Clusters naturally appear by chance, but don't necessarily indicate that there is a causal relationship.
What is the Texas Sharp Shooter?
________ _______ is behavior which Mohave Community College regards as speech or action, including but not limited to, which
What is disruptive behavior?
You asked a question that had a presumption built into it so that it couldn't be answered without appearing guilty.
These fallacies are particularly effective at derailing rational debates because of their inflammatory nature - the recipient is compelled to defend themselves and may appear flustered or on the back foot.
What is a loaded question?
1.Know the material
2. Check your work
3. Read directions and each answer thoroughly
4.Manage unproductive thoughts and behaviors
5. Answer the questions you know first
What are five steps to taking tests?
This note taking method uses headings and bullet points to organize topics.
What is the Outline method?
You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
By exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument, it's much easier to present your own position as being reasonable, but this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate.
What is the straw-man?
Maintaining a GPA of 2.0 or better at MCC.
What is good academic standing?
You made what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument.
In this form of faulty reasoning one's belief is rendered unjustifiable because no matter how compelling the evidence is, one simply shifts the goalposts so that it wouldn't apply to a supposedly 'true' example. This kind of post-rationalization is a way of avoiding valid criticisms of one's argument.
What is No True Scotsman?