Study Strategies that Work
This strategy involves using real-world examples to help your brain connect to the material.
What are concrete examples?
Zachary is from this southern city.
What is Atlanta?
This is the year that TD was founded.
What was 1968?
A word to describe "thinking about thinking."
What is metacognition?
This is released when we experience something enjoyable (success, praise, fun).
What is dopamine?
This strategy involves expanding on topics and teaching the concepts to someone else.
What is explaining and elaborating?
Brian is all about the thrills and loves to visit these in his spare time.
What are theme parks?
These are the four values in the R.A.M.S. acronym represent.
What are respect, academic excellence, mental health & wellness, and scholar success?
This word is the "A" in the SMART Goals acronym.
What is Achievable?
Exercise benefits not just physical, but this kind of health too.
What is mental health?
This strategy involves doing a little each day before exams and NOT cramming.
What is spaced practice?
Zachary works with these two teams at URI.
What are rowing and men's basketball?
He is the director of TD here at URI.
Who is Gerald Williams?
The goal over the next two weeks is to move from a fixed mindset to this kind of mindset.
What is a growth mindset?
According to the modules, successful people prioritize these kinds of activities in their schedules.
What are fun activities?
This strategy is a highly effective learning strategy where individuals actively try to recall information from memory rather than passively rereading or reviewing it.
What is retrieval practice?
Brian does these things as hobbies and side gigs.
What are photography, videography, and content creation?
TD is primarily located in this building.
What is Taft Hall?
This activity is number one on the Daily UCS 160 work cycle.
What is "attend class?"
In class, we talked about healthy snacks and these. Mine is Whole Foods chicken tenders.
What are comfort foods?
This strategy involves mixing up different topics and skills while learning.
What is interleaving?
Zachary is this many years old.
What is 34?
This is the generous grant that provides financial assistance to TD scholars.
What is the Hardge-Forleo Grant?
Self-_______ is one major difference between high school and college.
What is advocacy or directedness?
During sleep, your brain also cleans itself by flushing out these.
What are toxins?