Personal Growth
Indicates a self-perceived level of personal worth.
What is self-esteem? pg. 191
Something that causes a response, such as an action or thought.
What is stimuli? pg. 128
A word element that is attached to the front of a word.
What is a prefix? pg. 151
This tool is an important study habit that helps you manage your time.
What is a study schedule? pg. 160
This reduces your emotional feelings and physiological changes that cause anger.
What is Anger Management? pg. 244
A systematic research-based assessment tool and skill-building system designed to adapt to change, develop leadership, and build teamwork skills.
What is the Success Profiler? pg 190
When you think about thinking. Awareness and understanding of one's own thoughts.
What is metacognition? pg. 123
You learn that a new word is different from a known word. "At night the street was pacific, unlike the crowded, noisy chaos it was during the day."
What is a contrast clue? pg. 151
Be My Little General is an example of this.
What is an acrostic? pg.169
The ability to sense, understand, and accept another person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Empathy? pg. 245
Yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior out of respect or reverence.
What is Deference? pg. 194
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This person is guided more by practical considerations than by ideals.
What is a pragmatist? pg. 133
DR-TA, GIST, Think-aloud, QARS, will help you gain a better understanding of what you are reading.
What are reading comprehension strategies? pgs. 146-149
An efficient note-taking skill because you only write important ideas and write faster.
What is notehand? pg. 165
Getting back at people indirectly without telling them why, rather than confronting them.
What is passive-aggressive? pg. 243
This skill includes self-esteem and emotional skills. This skill dimension is related to how you evaluate and accept yourself as a person.
What are Intrapersonal Skills? pg. 195
These are two thinking approaches that active learners use.
What are critical and creative thinking? pg. 125
Three different kinds of questions you can ask to gain a better understanding of what you are reading.
What are empirical, values, and analytical? pg.144
A note-taking method that uses five steps for taking, condensing and organizing notes. (Preparation, capture, refine or reduce, recite and summarize)
What is the Cornell Method? pg.167
This aspect of your personality indicates your awareness and recognition of the need to expand your skills, improve relationships, and develop greater personal strength.
What is personal change orientation? pg.245
A learned ability to identify, experience, understand and express human emotions in healthy, productive ways.
What is emotional intelligence? p190
As you grow and mature, you learn to shift from seeing the world as being centered on you to seeing it in a way that many people can agree on what it means.
What are Subjective and Objective? pg. 126
This reading comprehension strategy asks you to focus on short passages in your reading, 3-5 paragraphs ing length, and create summaries.
What are the generating Interactions between Schemata and Text (GIST)? pg. 146
You experience this if you do not prepare for an exam by studying and taking good notes.
What is test anxiety? pg. 171
These strategies include learning to relax, changing the way you think, solving problems, and learning to communicate better.
What are anger management strategies? pg. 246