Chapter 1
the process by which you become a more successful student
What is academic transformation?
Thinking about thinking
What is metacognition?
The complexity level of the academic content in a course.
What is content difficulty?
Looking through a topic before the learning date
Business guy, leads the charge of brain learning.
What is the central executive?
Someone who can learn without teacher direction
The disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances.
What is critical thinking?
The second difficulty dimension, should be understandable and lively
What is quality of presentation?
Looking through a topic super fast, getting only what is absolutely nesscessary
What is skimming?
enables us to sense and shape energy and information flow.
Someone who learns via teacher direction
What is a teacher-directed learner?
entails the predisposition to consider all relevant viewpoints equally, without reference to one’s own feelings or selfish interests, or the feelings or selfish interests of one’s friends, community, or nation
What is fair-mindedness?
easier and more natural learning situations
Using your index finger, pen or pencil, or hand to underline each line of text as you read
What is the pacer technique?
the physical construction and processes of the brain
What is psychological learning?
Holds our deepest values and feelings,
What is a quality world?
possessing specific information about something
What is declarative knowledge?
the material seems so difficult and confusing that it is easy for your mind to wander from the lecture or the text, and you easily become bored
What is formal continuum?
Never giving up, never letting down, never hurting you
what is persistance?
This super complicated process that enables your brain to not just absorb information but keep it for another time.
What is the dual store model of memory?
Relationships, work, belief, and service
What are the Four Major arenas of life?
To know how to do something
What is procedural knowledge?
Intend, be ready, record, refocus, connect
How to learn in class?
The process of reading to such an extent that you don't just learn the material, you master it and keep it forever.
What is strategic reading?
episodic, factual, autobiographical, spatial and semantic
What are the explicit memories?