Study Skills

Question 1

Procrastination

Answer 1

Involves puttting off an activity to do something less important because our brain values instant reward/gratification more than a future reward or delayed gratification

Question 2

Tips to stop procrastination

Answer 2

1. Top 3 tasks
2. Anchor your priorities
3. Impact evaluation: prioritise activities that will have the most impact first
4. Make rewards immediate with temptation bundling
5. Plan fir the future

Question 3

Hurry sickness

Answer 3

Taking on too much and never having any time out causes stress. Feeling like you need to cram your days full of productive stuff and never having any breaks

Question 4

MoSCoW

Answer 4

Must: the things that you need to do, the things you must prioritise
Should: these things have high importance and are critical but come second to “must” items
Could: things shoukd be done if possible, however you could technically get by without doing them
Would (or won’t): things that are “nice-to-haves” but not essential

Question 5

Quadrant personalities

Answer 5

1. The procrastinator: person spends most time distracted and usually delays everything and leaves it to last minute
2. Prioritiser: means they focus on their time and energy into things that they prioritise
3. Yes man: person who goes with the flow and lets life happen
4. Slacker: lazy and unmotivated, always on tv, video games and social media

Question 6

Timeboxing

Answer 6

Involves setting a specific amount of time to do a specific task, maximises productivity and focus

Question 7

Generosity burnout/collaborative overload

Answer 7

If you do not protect your priorities and are constantly putting the needs of others first, you are risk depleting your time and energy and ultimately burn out

Question 8

Steps to avoid generosity burnout

Answer 8

1. Set boundaries
2. Help proactively
3. Prioritise

Question 9

Training yourself for single tasking

Answer 9

Start small: start single tasking on tasks you enjoy
Break it down: if you have a big task, break it down into smaller tasks
Clear the clutter: remove anything that can pose as a distraction
Set unrealistic deadlines: the tighter your deadline, the more you solely focus on one task

Question 10

Metacognition

Answer 10

A form of higher order thinking that involves analysing ones own cognitive processes

Question 11

Neuroplasticity

Answer 11

Refers to the fact that our learning capability is like plastic, not fixed or static, but instead cam be moulded and shaped to continually learn new things

Question 12

Memory

Answer 12

Info first enters your brain into your sensory memory and then, if focused, into your short term memory (STM). If you process and review this info, it is transferred into LTM

Question 13

Working memory and cognitive load theory

Answer 13

Working memory is the part of the memory that is actively working to understand new info. CLT says our working memory van only process a certain amount of info at once

Question 14

Forms of ltm

Answer 14

Declarative: the ability to recall and verbalise what you learnt
Non-declarative: innate that you learn and remember without needed to verbalise what you have learnt

Question 15

Organisational systems

Answer 15

Note storage
Calendar
To do lists

Question 16

Four common types of stress

Answer 16

Time stress (stressed you don’t have enough time)
Anticipatory stress (stress abt something going to happen)
Situational stress (when in a situation yoy lack control)
Encounter stress (when dealing with people and finding them unpredictable)