SDV 100 Chapters 7 and 8

During lectures, if students just focus on listening to what the professor is saying, they tend to remember it better than when they try to listen and write at the same time.

• True

• False

Which one of the following practices is not an effective strategy to use while listening to class lectures?

• Keep taking notes, even if you’re not understanding what the instructor is saying at the time.

• Have a classmate take notes for you so you can focus on listening rather than writing.

• Rather than trying to write don’t everything the instructor is saying, use your attention selectively to focus on and write down what’s most important.

• Take notes in an organized fashion (e.g., keep separate ideas in separate paragraphs).

Which one of the following behaviors may be a clue that a professor is delivering an important piece of information in class?

• speaking at a rapid rate

• standing still

• moving closer to the students

• moving to the side of class

• moving out of the classroom and into the hallway.

If you were skimming a textbook chapter to find the most important information contained in a particular section or paragraph, you should focus on:

• the first sentence

• the last sentence

• the middle sentence

• both (a) and (b)

Waldo likes to study his assigned reading before exams by looking at the pictures and figures in the chapter and recalling the verbal (written) information that relates to these pictures and figures. Waldo is using a learning principle known as:

• distributed practice

• part-to-whole method

• multi-tasking

• dual coding

Compared to cramming (massed practice), the distributed practice method involves studying in shorter, more frequent sessions.

• true

• false

If you were a college professor and wanted your students to use the memory process of recall, which one of the following types of test should you give?

• multiple-choice test

• essay test

• matching test

• sobriety test

It’s more important to practice memory retrieval when studying for multiple-choice tests than essay tests.

• True

• False

If you’re given a writing assignment that asks you to analyze something, which one of the following mental actions should you perform on the material you’re writing about?

• summarize its main points

• describe what happened (e.g., who, what, when and where)

• break it down into its key parts and evaluate the parts

• discuss your overall interpretation of it

At Disco Tech University, John Revolta took the following courses and received the following grades:

Science of Synthetic Music (3 units) = D

Flashy Dance Moves 101 (3 units) = C

Dress to Impress (2 units) = A

Shake & Bake (1 unit) = B

Spinning Ball Design (4 units) = B

Random Finger-Pointing Routines (3 units) = F

What was John’s GPA for this set of courses?

• .5

• 2.0

• 3.0

• 4.0

• 4.5