WorksheetsHow to Change Our Habits
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins
What best describes what a habit is?
A behavior that we cannot control
A behavior that we want to stop doing
A behavior that becomes automatic from repeating it often
People often want to improve their habits in which four areas of life?
Anger Management, Hygiene, Sleeping, and Planning
Health, Money Management, Productivity, and Relationships
Athletics, Homework, Organizing, and Cleaning
When is it easier to change your habits?
When you’re older
When you turn 21
When you’re younger
What trains our brains to do the same thing over and over again?
Reciting the alphabet backwards
20-minute study sessions
Psychology experiments
The habit loop
Fill in the blank: A _______________ can be anything that reminds you of doing the habit, like a feeling, time of day, place, people, or what you just did before.
Behavior
Habit loop
Cue
Satisfaction
Fill in the blank: A behavior of a habit leads to a sense of _______________.
Frustration
Satisfaction
Power
Order
What usually makes us want to change a habit?
If we experience negative side effects
If it takes too long
If we’ve outgrown it
If better methods have been discovered
Fill in the blank with the appropriate set of words: If you want to improve a habit, use the same _______________ to prompt a different _______________ that gives you a similar _______________ (without any negative side effects).
habit loop, behavior, satisfaction
satisfaction, behavior, habit loop
cue, behavior, satisfaction
behavior, cue, habit loop
When it’s tough to get a good habit started, what can help us stick to it?
Clearing our schedule
A small reward
Buying a planner
Eliminating the cues
What word is closest to meaning “repeatedly putting off something you know you need to get done”?
Accelerating
Habit looping
Procrastinating
Distracting
Fill in the blank: _______________ is counting on you to take care of yourself now.
society
the habit loop
your doctor
your future self
Which three habits tend to affect one another?
How you eat, how you exercise, and how you sleep
How you study, how you spend money, and how you sleep
How you communicate, how you study, and how you deal with negative situations
How you communicate, how you keep appointments, and how you organize
Fill in the blank: Feeling tired from the school day and hearing the dismissal bell can be the _______________ in a habit loop.
Negative side effects
Satisfactions
Behaviors
Cues
Feeling sleepy in the morning and being out of shape are the _______________ of eating chips and watching TV all night while sitting on the couch.
Cues
Negative side effects
Habit loops
Behaviors
Which word completes both blanks? It’s suggested that by replacing eating chips with the new _______________ of eating sunflower seeds and string cheese, and watching TV all night while sitting on the couch with the new _______________ of lifting weights
Cue
Negative side effects
Satisfaction
Behavior
The feeling of “unwinding” after school is the _______________ in a habit loop.
Satisfaction
Cue
Negative side effect
Behavior
Out of the following, which would be most likely to help you be productive?
A smartwatch that tracks how you spend your time all day
The ability to recognize the most important task and pay attention to it
Energy drinks that include vitamins to improve your focus
A planner that helps you track your progress on assignments and make detailed schedules for when you’ll work
How can breaking a big assignment into smaller tasks help us be more productive?
It gives us more opportunities to take breaks, which motivates us to continue when an assignment is boring.
It shows us how long the whole assignment will take, so we can put it on our calendars.
. It gives you the opportunity to see what’s not going well so you can make changes before you go too far.
Our brains feel a sense of accomplishment when we complete tasks, so the more tasks we complete, the more we feel like we can reach our end goal (instead of being overwhelmed).
What is the best reason why it would it be better to stretch during a break instead of checking your phone?
Stretching is more likely to help you stay alert
Stretching wouldn’t give your brain any new information to process.
Looking at your phone will strain your eyes.
You wouldn’t want people to think you’re available to talk when you’re actually getting back to work.
What does it mean to delay gratification?
Doing what’s most important before doing what’s fun
Finding something you can be thankful for when you’re doing difficult work
Taking time to break your assignment into smaller tasks
Slowing down so you do work carefully
How does the bandwagon effect convince people to buy a product?
It makes it seem like a product will help you get rich quick.
It uses famous musicians to make it seem like it’s a product that even wealthy people want to use.
It makes a product seem popular, so we don’t want to miss out on what seems like everyone else is experiencing.
It uses photography tricks to make a low quality product seem like it’s made from high-quality materials.
What are we doing when we explore the “gray area” of a situation?
We think of what could be the best outcome.
We try to think about how our future self would judge the situation
We think of the possibilities that could fall between the extremes.
We think about how what we want to say or do would make someone else feel.
What are you doing if you’re paraphrasing what someone else said?
You say in your own words what you think the other person means.
You think about what would be the satisfaction and negative side effects of their ideas.
You suggest an opposite idea for the other person to consider.
You consider what could be the other side of the story
What best describes black-and-white thinking?
. Carefully considering what someone else may be thinking and feeling
Trying to explain a situation to your friend in a dramatic way
Looking into the gray area of possibilities
Quickly jumping to an extreme reason when you do not have real or enough evidence for that opinion.
