COLL Midterm 22

Question 1

What is the Intelligent Practice Formula?

Answer 1

effort + good strategies + help from others = Intelligent Practice

Question 2

What is Metacognition?

Answer 2

Thinking about your thinking

Question 3

What are the abilities of metacognition?

Answer 3

• have conscious awareness of oneself as a problem-solver
• able to monitor and control one’s mental processing
• accurately judge one’s level of learning

Question 4

In order to do well on a test, you have to…

Answer 4

Be able to teach someone about it

Question 5

What is strategy?

Answer 5

to plan to win a battle, lead, or be general

Question 6

What is Study strategy?

Answer 6

A plan to learn

Question 7

Which is effective at learning? active or passive?

Answer 7

Active learning, because is “more lasting” than passive learning.

Question 8

What is Bloom’s taxonomy and its levels?

Answer 8

• classification of human cognition in different levels.

- (top to low) Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing, Applying, Understanding, and Remember.

Question 9

What is the Study Cycle?

Answer 9

Preview, Attend, Review, Study, and Access

Question 10

what is Preview?

Answer 10

• Reading the material before class
• Look at the summary and chapter’s objective
• Ask questions for lecture

Question 11

what is Attend?

Answer 11

• Go to class
• Ask questions and answers
• Take meaningful notes

Question 12

what is Review?

Answer 12

• ASAP after class
• Read notes
• Fill in the missing gaps and note any questions

Question 13

what is Study?

Answer 13

• repetition is key (memorization)
• ask questions (why, how, what if…)
• set up intense study hours (3-5 hrs a day)
• weekend review (read notes and material from the week = connection)

Question 14

What is Access?

Answer 14

• Access your learning
• ask yourself: “Am I understanding the material to teach it to others?”
• “Am I using this study method effectively?”
• Do a self-reality check on how well you actually think you know the material well.

Question 15

What is example of Intense Study Session?

Answer 15

1. set a goal (1-2 minutes)
2. focus on studying (30-50 minutes)
3. Reward yourself (10-15 minutes)
4. review (5 minutes)

Question 16

What is Growth mindset?

Answer 16

Believing intelligence is potential through learning by being aware of it.

Question 17

What is Fixed mindset?

Answer 17

Believing that intelligence is “fixed” and has a certain amount of it.

Question 18

What are the traits of a Good mindset?

Answer 18

• cares about learning and is interested in it
• belief of working hard would increase their abilities as well
• response to set back is by finding a different way to study or increase study hours

Question 19

What are the traits of Fixed mindset?

Answer 19

• care about how smart they appear and reject opportunities to learn
• believe working hard meant that not having the abilities and things would come naturally if they did.
• say they feel dumb, study less or none, and consider cheating when responding to setbacks

Question 20

Why is reading not natural?

Answer 20

because humans are meant to visualize and verbal communication and reading is “adaptation” in order to learn more information. Also connecting the new “circuit” to an existing one.

Question 21

Who is Angela L. Duckworth? and what did she research on?

Answer 21

• psychologist
• GRIT = growth mindset
• Also created the GRIT scale survey

Question 22

What is GRIT?

Answer 22

The will to preserve and improve through and from setbacks

Question 23

Who is Maryanne Wolf? and known for?

Answer 23

• neuroscientist, studies reading in the brain and how it is changing
• Also Dyslexia
• and how reading is unnatural

Question 24

Who is Carol S. Dweck and research on?

Answer 24

• psychologist researcher

- research on “growth” and “fixed” mindsets (Brainology)