The ability to use strategies to deal constructively and effectively with variables that affect the quality of your personal life.
What is Self-Management ?
100
The driving force to take action that comes from within you.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
100
A reaction or response to events or situations that threaten or disrupts our normal patterns or routines.
What is Stress?
100
The process of creating a picture or a movie in your mind that shows you performing effectively.
What is Mental Rehearsal?
100
A learned behavior that involves putting off or postponing something until a later time.
What is Procrastination?
200
The ability to block out external and internal distractors in order to stay focused on one specific item or task.
What is Concentration ?
200
The driving force to take action that comes from sources outside yourself.
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
200
Are situations or actions that cause stress.
What is Stressors?
200
A series of steps or consistent routine that allows you to get started quickly on a task.
What is Study Ritual?
200
Involves resisting the urge to participate in an external or internal distraction.
What is The Say No Technique?
300
Disruptions caused by things in your physical environment.
What is External Distractors ?
300
The perception you have of yourself as a human being.
What is Self-Esteem?
300
Cognitive and behavioral strategies used to manage and overcome stressors and difficult situations.
What is Coping Strategies?
300
Activities at the beginning of a study block that shift thoughts and create a mindset for studying and concentrating.
What are Warm-Ups?
300
Involves picturing yourself in a tunnel and training your mind to stay centered and on course.
What is Tunnel Vision Technique ?
400
Disruptions that occur inside you physically or emotionally.
What is Internal Distractions ?
400
The belief in your abilities to accomplish a specific task at a specific level of performance.
What is Self-Efficacy?
400
Involves identifying and expressing your emotions to others.
What is Emotional Coping Strategies?
400
Involves keeping a score card to record and reduce the number of distractions that you allow into your working memory.
What is Check Mark Technique ?
400
Involves refocusing your mind by using words that begin with E to create a positive attitude.
What is The Emotional E Words?
500
The process of breaking larger assignments or sections of information into smaller, more manageable units that working memory can handle.
What is Chunking?
500
States that incentives and rewards are the driving forces behind people's choices and behaviors.
What is The Incentive Theory of Motivation?
500
Involves changing patterns or behaviors to overcome stress.
What is Behavioral Coping Strategies?
500
Involves taking responsibility for your environment by seeking an alternative place to study or by modifying the existing environment so it has few or no distractions.
What is The Take Charge Technique?
500
The feeling, emotion, or desire that moves a person to take action.