On Course Strategies For Creating Success In College And In Life 2nd Edition By Downing – Test Bank

Chapter 9 Final Exam—Staying On Course to Your Success

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1. Lasting learning occurs when we become active learners.

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2. Mental processing for deep and lasting learning has two dimensions: quality and quantity.

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3. Successful learners typically use just one deep processing strategy to master complex information and skills.

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4. The key concept in a reading is the broad main topic, while the main idea is the most important idea about the concept.

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5. Your goal in active reading is to Collect key concepts, important ideas and supporting details.

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6. One way a student may increase his or her quantity of processing (which leads to deep and lasting learning) is to create a distributed reading schedule.

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7. Long-term goals are outcomes that can be reached by the end of the current semester.

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8. A Life Plan gives your Inner Guide something positive to focus on when the chatter of your Inner Critic or Inner Defender attempts to distract you.

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9. A visualization of your desired outcomes and experiences may help keep you on course even when life’s adversities conspire against you.

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10. Spend too much time in Quadrant I and you may experience stress, develop ulcers, and flirt with a nervous breakdown.

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11. Quadrant II is where you will find Victims.

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