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What is NOT a good strategy for reducing anxiety on a test?

  • Arriving on time
  • Drinking extra caffeine
  • Practicing positive talk and mindfulness
  • Getting plenty of rest the night before
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In our financial discussion of Health vs. Wealth, health means:

  • Having a lot of money
  • Being in control of your money, rather than your money being in control of you
  • Having enough money to afford everything you need, not everything you want
  • Purchasing items that keep you physically healthy
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AI tools can hallucinate. This means they can:

  • Save you time and help you write more intelligent content
  • Help you embellish your writing
  • Generate responses that include misleading and false information
  • Act strangely
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About how long will an employer spend looking over your resume?

  • One minute
  • Less than 10 seconds
  • 20-30 seconds
  • 5 minutes
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True or false: "A lack of self-confidence matters, because it affects your academic success.”

True!

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What should you do in the last few minutes of your exam?

  • Read the instructions
  • Take deep breaths and shake it off if you feel like you performed poorly
  • Check your work
  • Make sure your name and date are on the exam
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What is a rainy day fund?

  • Stocks and bonds
  • A life insurance policy
  • Liquid funds to cover at least 3-6 months coverage for emergencies
  • A credit card for emergencies
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The primary way to give a good presentation is to:

  • Ask Chat GPT to do it
  • Be prepared
  • Wing it
  • Crack jokes to take the edge off
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To be considered a sophomore, one must have completed:

  • 30 credit hours
  • 60 credit hours
  • 35 credit hours
  • 25 credit hours
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“If everyone else is doing it…”

  • It must be cool
  • We should do our own thing
  • It’s probably the safe and smart thing to do
  • Let’s go
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When it comes to studying for exams, what is most helpful?

  • Relying on a group to help you study
  • Rereading the study guide and assigned book chapters
  • Doing retrieval practice that is mixed and varied
  • Looking at PowerPoints
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Daniel Goleman states that being aware of the effects of social norms on our thoughts and behaviors requires:

  • Emotional intelligence
  • A desire to work with others
  • Patience
  • A good understanding of your personality type (MBTI)
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True or false: Rereading your presentation multiple times is an effective way of preparing for its delivery.

False!

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How long does it take for people to make an initial judgment or opinion of you?

  • 7 seconds or less
  • 30 minutes
  • 1 hour
  • 2 minutes
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True or false: “You do not need to be great at learning; you need to be okay at it but also achieve proficiency in other skills.”

True!

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Which of the following is a good strategy for learning from past exams?

  • Vowing to study more in the future
  • Emailing your instructor
  • Evaluating what went wrong on the exam
  • Asking for extra credit
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What is a self-handicap?

  • A healthy way of multitasking
  • A fear of missing out
  • A self-imposed hindrance we put on ourselves so we have an excuse for our failure
  • A lack of consistency or intent
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True or false: we are most effective when we work on tasks for longer than an hour.

False!

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What is the ultimate purpose of forming good habits?

  • To solve the problems of life with as little energy and effort as possible
  • To gain more self-awareness
  • To more effectively manage my time
  • To become a better problem solver
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Knowing your VIPS tells you a lot about yourself and can prove to be extremely helpful in determining your career path. The “V” stands for:

  • Values
  • Variables
  • Venues
  • Viligance
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Memories tend to be organized in ­­­­_______________

  • Themes
  • Pockets
  • Particular study places
  • Routines
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According to Outsmart Your Brain, it is better to rely on _______ than willpower.

  • Our habits
  • Our own energy
  • Prodding from our parent(s)
  • Student planning
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We can know a source is credible because it:

  • Is typically used to entertain people and is highly motivated by ratings and profit
  • Has a strong editing process, including peer reviews
  • Advances a particular bias or agenda
  • Is used by a friend
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What are the three steps to preparing a study guide?

  • Prepare, review questions with classmates, write down answers
  • Prepare, write the study guide, commit answers to memory
  • Prepare, make as many questions as possible from your notes, commit answers to memory
  • Wing it
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Stress can be good because it can:


  • Cause burnout
  • Motivate us to accomplish daily tasks
  • Cause us to develop compromised coping mechanisms
  • Make you miss out on things