Study Skills and Strategies Part I

The forgetting curve demonstrates what important principles of learning?

• Increased blood supply helps you think better.

• Only seven items can be held in short-term memory at the same time.

• Short-term memories become long-term memories

• The brain retains memories that are repeated at spaced intervals

How does sleep affect the brain's storage of memories?

• Interrupted sleep improves recall of short-term memories, but slows the storage of long-term memories

• Memory storage seems to improve during sleep due to a process called consolidation

• Sleep improves blood flow to the brain and your storage of memories

• Sleeping in excess of nine hours seems to slow the storage and recall of memories

Why is prerequisite knowledge important to high school students?

• It helps you identify the behaviors new assignments require.

• It helps you remember what you learned before.

• It makes basic knowledge easier to learn.

• It prepares you to learn at increasingly complex levels.

Knowing and thinking about your future career and academic goals will affect many of the decisions you make while in high school. Which of the following is an example of an important decision influenced by those goals?

• The classes that you take

• The friends that you choose

• The money that you spend

• The time of day that you study

How do distractions impact your study time?

• They cause you to lose focus and lose time.

• They cause you to lose focus and that results in lower grades

• They make studying almost impossible

• They make you drowsy and distracted.

Which of the following best explains the reason to use a study plan?

• A study plan ensures that you will schedule your studying at the same time every day.

• A study plan helps you break your study time into smaller chunks, which improves your ability to focus and helps you avoid distractions.

• A study plan helps you coordinate study times with your friends

• Planning for studying makes you take your assignments more seriously.

How are hearing and listening alike and how are they different?

• In both hearing and listening, the ears perceive sound and meaning, but only in listening does the brain determine the message.

• In both hearing and listening, the ears perceive sound, but only in hearing does the brain determine the meaning and the message.

• In both hearing and listening, the ears perceive sound, but only in listening does the brain determine the context and conflict.

• In both hearing and listening, the ears perceive sound, but only in listening does the brain determine the meaning and the message.

Which of the following is a description of responding to the message, one of the steps in the listening process?

• You hear the sound.

• You pay attention to the message.

• You seek clarification by asking questions of the speaker.

• You understand the message.

Choose a nonverbal gesture or expression that could bring confusion when given with this spoken message: I am really interested in what you have to say.

• Glance at your watch several times

• Lean forward in your chair

• Make direct eye contact

• Write notes about the conversation.

What does the Forgetting Curve tell you about the amount of information you may forget if you do not think about that information within twenty-four hours of listening?

• Your recall will drop by fifteen to twenty percent.

• Your recall drop by fifty to eighty percent.

• Your recall will drop by ninety-nine percent

• Your recall will remain the same as when you left the lecture.