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Having a growth mindset means believing that people:

1. Can increase their abilities and do better through hard work. 2. Challenge themselves to try to increase their success, even if they fail at first attempt.

If you find yourself struggling to determine whether an assignment is truly complete, which of the following tips does your book recommend?

1. Do the best you can and know that there is always another day. 2. Use strategies that have worked for you before.

Having a particular receptive learning style

1. Does not mean you cannot learn any other way. 2. Means it will likely be easier to learn material in that manner.

___________ are influenced by their personal values and attachments to others, while _________ reach decisions through systematic analysis.

1. Feelers 2. Thinkers

The eight different kinds of intelligence

1. Form the core of our learning styles and preferences. 2. Work during a variety of activities.

A __________-term goal is made up of several _______-term goals.

1. Long 2. Short

Which of the following are effective goal setting strategies?

1. Make goals realistic. 2. Set goals in terms of behavior that can be measurable.

Put the steps to observational learning in the correct order.

1. Paying attention and perceiving the most critical features of another person's behavior. 2. Remembering the behavior. 3.Repeating the action. 4.Being motivated to learn and carry out the behavior

Learning, personality and processing styles are related to our __________ and the ________ approaches we like to use

1. Preferences 2. Mental

Learning styles do which of the following?

1. Reflect our preferred manner for thinking about knowledge. 2. Reflect our preferred manner of acquiring knowledge.

Identify any of the following that showcases information about learning styles.

1. Some people tend to better using some learning styles rather than others. 2. There are different methods for learning.

Personality inventories can:

1. Suggest how someone will respond to different situations. 2. Assist us in identifying situations in which we work best.

Which of the following statements about learning theories are true?

1. They are broad explanations about how we learn. 2. Each learning theory takes a different approach and looks at different factors.

Which of the following are tendencies of right-brain processing?

1. Understanding of spatial relationships and patterns. 2. Focusing on nonverbal domains.

Identify key concepts behind the control of motivation

1. Viewing success as a consequence of effort. 2. Viewing success as a consequence of self-control.

If you have auditory/verbal style you should consider:

1. Working in a virtual study group and talking through material. 2. Reciting material out loud when studying

Reasons that a college education are worth pursuing include that

1. You will be better prepared to deal with change. 2. You will have intellectual tools that you can use in new situations.

The Myers-Briggs type indicator is used frequently:

1. to assist students learn about their personality preferences. 2. In business and organizational settings.

On average, college students earn about ___ percent more income than high school graduates over their working lifetime.

75

Please select the statement that best describes the reason a college degree tends to be valued by employers.

A college degree indicates that the individual has learned to think critically and communicate well.

Which of the following defines learning style?

A person's preferred manner of acquiring, using and thinking about knowledge.

P.O.W.E.R. Learning is an ____________ or a word formed from the first letters of a series of steps that will help you take in, process and make use of the information you will acquire in college.

Acronym

Which statement best describes the relationship between the impact of technology and the necessity of a college education?

As jobs become increasingly complex and technologically sophisticated, college will become more and more of a necessity.

_________ conditioning is a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus (such as someone's footsteps) comes to elicit a response after being paired with a different stimulus (such as food) that naturally brings out that response.

Classical

According to _________ approaches to learning, our thoughts shape the way we learn.

Cognitive

____________ is a determination of how well the product of activity we have created matches our goals for it.

Evaluation

_________ learners are most likely to enjoy learning in groups.

Extroverted.

Intelligence is:

Fluid and flexible

Successful completion of tasks comes from _________.

Following a systematic plan for success.

In order to be successful, the best way to plan systematically is to use _____________ strategies.

Goal-setting

__________ intelligence relates to a particularly strong understanding of the internal aspects of oneself.

Intrapersonal

Pair the four major personality dimensions with its associated opposite as presented by the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

Introvert - Extraverts Intuitors - Sensors Thinkers - Feelers Perceivers - Judgers

What happens if there is a mismatch between a person's preferred processing style and the processing style required for a certain task?

It may take more work, but successful completion of the task is possible.

When evaluating whether you have been successful in an activity, it is important that you

Keep your goals in mind.

Problem solving and scientific thinking are associated with

Logical-mathematical intelligence.

Major effort tends to equal _________.

Major Success

The inner power and psychological energy that directs and fuels behavior is called _________.

Motivation.

Howard Garner's theory of ________ _________ says that we have eight different forms of intelligence, each relatively independent of the others.

Multiple Intelligences

___________ intelligence involves skills related to music.

Musical

________ intelligence involves exceptional abilities in identifying and classifying patterns in the world around you.

Naturalist

As jobs become increasingly complex and technologically sophisticated, college will become more and more of a ____________.

Necessity

___________ conditioning is learning in which a behavior is made more or less likely to recur regularly because of the presence of a reinforcer.

Operant

Match each learning theory approach with its basic associated concepts.

Operant conditioning approaches - reinforcers Cognitive approaches - observational learning Classical conditioning approaches - neutral stimulus

Gathering the right tools to accomplish a task/goal is associated with which part of the P.O.W.E.R. learning process?

Organize

People who attempt to gather as much information as they can and consider multiple perspectives, sometimes making it difficult to complete a task, are called

Perceivers

P.O.W.E.R.

Prepare Organize Work Evaluate Rethink

The P.O.W.E.R. process component that involves determining whether your initial goals are practical and realistic or if they require modification is ____________.

R - Rethink

______________ are things that increase the probability of a behavior occurring again.

Reinforcers

Those who prefer visual/graphic learning styles tend toward ________-brain processing.

Right

People in which personality dimension prefer a concrete, logical approach in which they can carefully analyze the facts of the situation?

Sensors

The left-brain processes information:

Sequentially, one bit at a time.

________ intelligence most relates to those skills used by artists and architects.

Spatial

Key to Success

Systematic Planning

Physical organization in learning has to do with the mechanical aspects of completing a task, while mental organization has more to do with __________.

The academic skills needed

If you carry out the preparation and organization needed to be successful to complete a task, then _________.

The work can become the easy part.

Explain the purpose behind the rethinking step of P.O.W.E.R. Learning

To better understand your process of work.

A student with a tactile/kinesthetic learning style prefers to learn by _________ things.

Touching and manipulating

The following is a tip for visual/graphic style learners

Translate words into symbols and figures.

Systematic Planning

Use goal-setting strategies

Match the receptive learning style pairs.

Visual - graphic Auditory - verbal Read - write Tactile - kinesthetic

It is useful to understand our personality preferences because:

We work best in situations in which others share our preferences.

You accomplish mental organization when:

You get your basic skills ready for successful completion of your college degree.