Learning to be a Better Student

Question 1

Executive functions: thinking, planning, organizing, and
problem-solving; emotions and behavior control; personality

Answer 1

Frontal Lobe

Question 2

Auditory processing, language comprehension, speech,
memory

Answer 2

Temporal

Question 3

Perception, intelligence, reasoning, making sense of the world, language, sensation, reading

Answer 3

Parietal

Question 4

Visual perception and interpretation

Answer 4

Occipital

Question 5

Generate your own explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true

Answer 5

Elaborative
Interrogation

Question 6

Explaining how new information is related to new information or explaining steps taken
during problem-solving

Answer 6

Self-explaination

Question 7

Writing summaries of the texts to be learned

Answer 7

Summarization

Question 8

Marking potentially important portions of the
materials while reading

Answer 8

highlighting/underlining

Question 9

Using keywords to associate verbal materials

Answer 9

Keyword Mnemonic

Question 10

Forming mental images of text materials

Answer 10

Imagery for text

Question 11

Restudying text materials again after an initial reading

Answer 11

Rereading

Question 12

Self-testing or taking practice tests over the to-be-learned material

Answer 12

Practicing Learning

Question 13

Implementing a schedule of practice that
spreads out study activities over time

Answer 13

Distributed Practice

Question 14

Implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that combines different
types of material, within a single study lesson

Answer 14

Interleaved practice