Midterm

Question 1

Belief

Answer 1

What you accept as true or right; your strong opinion about something.

Question 2

Value

Answer 2

A strongly held belief about what is valuable, important, or acceptable.

Question 3

Interest

Answer 3

Something you enjoy doing or want to be involved with and learn more about.

Question 4

Controllable

Answer 4

Something you have the power to change if you wish to do so.

Question 5

Uncontrollable

Answer 5

Something you are unable to easily alter.

Question 6

Mastery Goal

Answer 6

Pursuing the goal in order to understand the process or the concept, for self-improvement, or for increased knowledge.

Question 7

Performance Goal

Answer 7

Pursuing the goal strictly for the end result such as getting good grades to look good in front of others.

Question 8

Short-Term Goal

Answer 8

A desired objective that you plan to achieve in the near future, such as within a few days, weeks, or months.

Question 9

Long-Term Goal

Answer 9

A desired objective that you plan to achieve across a longer period of time, such as within a school year, a calendar year, or a few years.

Question 10

Enabling Goal

Answer 10

A special kind of intermediate goal that incrementally moves you closer to achieving a long-term goal.

Question 11

SMART Goal

Answer 11

Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. Focusing on the details of a goal in order to achieve success more effectively.

Question 12

Attribution Theory

Answer 12

Incorporates both behavior modification and self-efficacy. Academic success is determined by the learner’s perception of their ability to pass or fail at something.

Question 13

Attributes

Answer 13

The reasons people give for their successes and failures.

Question 14

Self-Efficacy

Answer 14

Judgments we make based off our capabilities and the four key points which are performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, physiological and emotional states.

Question 15

Concept Map

Answer 15

Organized knowledge links that are connected by a theme and branched out with more detailed information.

Question 16

What makes a goal motivating?

Answer 16

It is rooted in beliefs, values, and interests (who you are) and attends to self-efficacy (confidence) and its sources. EX: personal, vicarious, influence, and physiological.

Question 17

What is the difference between academic advising and career counseling (advising)?

Answer 17

An academic advisor helps you with degree planning, transfers, graduating, release holds, etc.

A career counselor prepares you for the job market, helps you to determine undecided majors, career assessments, interview skills, build a resume, find scholarships, etc.

Question 18

Metacognition

Answer 18

Refers to your awareness of understanding a topic.

Question 19

What is a key factor in achieving successful learning?

Answer 19

What you think about while studying.

Question 20

Memory

Answer 20

The complex combination of processes by which information is acquired, stored, and later retrieved.

Question 21

Working Memory (limited capacity)

Answer 21

The processes that are used to temporarily store, organize, and manipulate information.

Question 22

Long-Term Memory

Answer 22

The information that is stored long term in the memory. This information can be: (a) Episodic - About a specific event. (b) Semantic - General knowledge about the world. (c) Procedural - How to do something like riding a bike.

Question 23

Attention

Answer 23

The filtering system by which we actively focus on or tune out information.

Question 24

Deep Processing

Answer 24

The process of attributing meaning to information often by linking it to prior knowledge, which ensures that it passes into long-term memory. I.e.: recall the word dance from the video.

Question 25

Shallow Processing

Answer 25

The superficial processing of information according to appearance or sound, which leads to short-term retention. I.e.: Memorizing definitions or phone number.

Question 26

Orienting Tasks

Answer 26

Cause you to think in deep or shallow ways, regardless of your intention.

Question 27

What are the 3 types of thinking? (Part of our understanding)

Answer 27

Declarative: What you know
Procedural: How you apply what you know
Conditional: How you adjust your process to get the correct answer.

Question 28

Regulating (Manage Thinking)

Answer 28

Planning: Which resources and strategies to accomplish a task.
Implement and Monitoring: Continuously examining the progress you are making towards completing it.
Evaluating: Assessing how well the planning and monitoring helped you complete the task.

Question 29

Metacognition Regulation

Answer 29

Plan, Implement, and Evaluate

Question 30

Elaboration

Answer 30

A form of deep processing whereby information is not only actively linked to things you already know, but is enhanced or embellished. I.e.: How a toilet works.

Question 31

Chunking (Processing Strategy)

Answer 31

Breaking a large amount of information down into smaller chunks. I.e.: BFFMTVFBIDOD

Question 32

Acronyms/Acrostics (Processing Strategy)

Answer 32

Using the initial letters of a set of information to create an easily remembered statement. I.e.: PEMDAS

Question 33

Associations/Analogies (Processing Strategy)

Answer 33

Comparing something new to something you already know. I.e.: Associative Property- If you have three blue socks and two black socks, it doesn’t matter which color of socks you add up first because they still total up to 5 socks.

Question 34

Applying knowledge to new situations (Processing Strategy)

Answer 34

Connect to what you know and have experienced.

Question 35

Paraphrasing/Summarizing (Processing Strategy)

Answer 35

Putting the material you are studying into your own words.

Question 36

Explaining/Teaching (Processing Strategy)

Answer 36

Using you own words to teach someone else. Come up with your own examples.

Question 37

Dividing Material into Meaningful Parts

(Processing strategy)

Answer 37

Separate material into parts and explain how the pieces are part of the whole.

Question 38

Visual Organizing Strategies

(Organization Strategy)

Answer 38

Techniques for depicting the relationship between things visually I.e.: Concept maps, mind maps, timelines, hierarchies.)

Question 39

Think-aloud protocols (Organization Strategy)

Answer 39

A learning strategy that involves verbalizing aloud the processes, steps, meanings, relationships, etc. (talk to someone else…or yourself.)

Question 40

Flash Cards (Processing Strategy)

Answer 40

Visual devices used to help remember key information.