COLL Midterm 22 Flashcards
What is the Intelligent Practice Formula?
effort + good strategies + help from others = Intelligent Practice
What is Metacognition?
Thinking about your thinking
What are the abilities of metacognition?
- 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
In order to do well on a test, you have to…
Be able to teach someone about it
What is strategy?
to plan to win a battle, lead, or be general
What is Study strategy?
A plan to learn
Which is effective at learning? active or passive?
Active learning, because is “more lasting” than passive learning.
What is Bloom’s taxonomy and its levels?
- classification of human cognition in different levels.
- (top to low) Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing, Applying, Understanding, and Remember.
What is the Study Cycle?
Preview, Attend, Review, Study, and Access
what is Preview?
- Reading the material before class
- Look at the summary and chapter’s objective
- Ask questions for lecture
what is Attend?
- Go to class
- Ask questions and answers
- Take meaningful notes
what is Review?
- ASAP after class
- Read notes
- Fill in the missing gaps and note any questions
what is Study?
- 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)
What is Access?
- 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.
What is example of Intense Study Session?
- set a goal (1-2 minutes)
- focus on studying (30-50 minutes)
- Reward yourself (10-15 minutes)
- review (5 minutes)
What is Growth mindset?
Believing intelligence is potential through learning by being aware of it.
What is Fixed mindset?
Believing that intelligence is “fixed” and has a certain amount of it.
What are the traits of a Good mindset?
- 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
What are the traits of Fixed mindset?
- 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
Why is reading not natural?
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.
Who is Angela L. Duckworth? and what did she research on?
- psychologist
- GRIT = growth mindset
- Also created the GRIT scale survey
What is GRIT?
The will to preserve and improve through and from setbacks
Who is Maryanne Wolf? and known for?
- neuroscientist, studies reading in the brain and how it is changing
- Also Dyslexia
- and how reading is unnatural
Who is Carol S. Dweck and research on?
- psychologist researcher
- research on “growth” and “fixed” mindsets (Brainology)
