Sonographer as Student Ch 2

Question 1

acrostics

Answer 1

first letter, support recall by creating a sentence in which the first letter of each word is a prompt for recalling information.

Question 2

clustering

Answer 2

Gathering things of the same sort

Question 3

competency

Answer 3

sonographers must possess many diverse skills to produce diagnostic quality studies

Question 4

critical thinking

Answer 4

is a necessary skill to meet current educational and employment. (capabilities for judgement, fact gathering, analysis, and synthesis

Question 5

deductive reasoning

Answer 5

This form of thinking involves drawing conclusions from facts and being able to recover and logically manipulate them to correlate with the clinical questions at hand

Question 6

mnemonic

Answer 6

technique involves creating a rhyme or story that contains facts to be remembered

Question 7

objective test

Answer 7

Multiple choice, true/false, completion, matching

Question 8

subjective test

Answer 8

essay test, 1. defined or explain a term or concept 2. describe how they would handle a given situation or solve a specific problem

Question 9

test anxiety

Answer 9

can interfere with your performance by blocking what you know during the test.

Question 10

visualization

Answer 10

work best for remembering concrete objects and actions (drawbacks to this technique is that it works poorly on abstract concepts

Question 11

Name three types of memory

Answer 11

immediate memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, inaccurate memory, forgetting, and memorization, memory techniques

Question 12

Name three types learning

Answer 12

Role-playing, effective studying, short-term assignments and rotation,learning aid, presenting material, computer skill, effective note taking, effective learning.