What is backward planning?
A way to set a goal by beginning with the end in mind and work backward.
Define self-efficacy.
The belief in your ability to finish a project.
What are the three critical thinking stages of Bloom's Taxonomy?
- Analysis
-Evaluation
-Creation
What is the organizing method individuals use to process new information based on prior knowledge?
Schema
What are two methods of note taking?
- Outlining
-Cornell Notes
What are personal and academic priorities?
Academic priorities are a level of importance relative to academic duties.
Personal priorities are important to an individual accomplishment.
What is the term for healthy stress that produces positive attitude and mental health?
Eustress.
What is another good position for entry into flow because you feel confident in your skill?
Control
What is declarative knowledge, and an example?
It is information based on facts or events.
EX: naming parts to the water cycle, or parts of human body, parts to the rock cycle.
List two advantages to note taking.
- Increase of focus and attention
-Increase in recall and recognition
-increase in comprehension
-Increase in review of concepts
What are the attributes of SMARTER goals?
S for Specific
M for Measurable
A for Attitude
R for Relevant
T for Time-Bound
E for Evaluate
R for Revise
Intrinsic Motivation: motivators within you to help you achieve your goals.
Extrinsic Motivations: motivators stemming from external factors.
What are the levels of Blooms Taxonomy?
1. Remembering
2. Understanding
3. Application
4. Analyzing
5. Evaluating
6. Creating
According to Cognitive researchers, what is the easiest way to achieve selective attention?
By setting goals
What is a strategy to use your notes as a study tool?
-use a set of note cards
- self- quiz: by covering answer/notes column and read question/cue.
What are two benefits to organizing your weekly and monthly schedule?
-Managing your time
-Minimizing your stress
-Making more time for social events
-Being able to submit work on time

Explain the Expectancy Theory.
it is the motivational theory that suggests people anticipate an outcome by the efforts made toward the desired goal/outcome.
expectation+ effort= desired outcome
-D: Direct
-U: Understand
-C: Connect
-K: Kick-it-around
What are the stages of memory processing?
1. Sensory Input
2. Sensory Memory
3. Working Memory
4. Long Term Memory
Define Studying productively.
being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth information from your memory more easily and automatically.
What are the 5 levels of Maslow's hierarchy needs?
1. Physicological Needs
2. Safety and confort
3.Love and belonging
4.Esteem
5. self- actualization
Explain external and internal locus of control.
External: It is when the individual perceives outside factors control the outcomes in their life.
What are the four stages of critical thinking?
What are two ways you can apply constructivism?
- Understanding the process of knowledge in core subjects
-Discussing during class
-asking information during class/ studying
-Arguing for/ against a point
-Building prior knowledge
What is the more fitted/correct term:
Learning Style or Learning Preference?
Learning Preference: it is more fitted to how the students prefer to learn. Unlike learning style, it is used by higher education professionals to label their students to what they think their students learn best. Often discouraging students ability to work on all three learning preferences.