Study Skills Flashcards
Procrastination
Not getting things done
Justifiable delay
Having something more imporant to do and working on that first
Distinction between important and urgent items
Important: things that help with mental health and relationships
Urgent: important project with due date
Classical conditioning
A unconditioned stimulus produces unconditioned response while a conditioned stimulus is paired with unconditioned stimulus. Advertising conditions us to see things that remind us of their product
Operant conditioning
Method of learning that has rewards and punishments
Eg) skinner and pigeons
Operant conditioning and procrastination
When you procrastinate, what you may be putting off is less rewarding than what you are doing.
Eg) 25 minutes of studying then 5 minute break
Self handicapping
Making it so we are less likely to succeed by either putting yourself down or by ignoring the work.
Eg) getting drunj, claiming anxiety, effort withdraw,
Fighting self handicapping
Mastery-approach goals
Mastery vs performance
Mastery: understanding material, focus on what you can can control, overcome and work on weakness
Performance: talent, avoid if not good
Approach vs avoidance
Approach: wanting to pass and succeed, want something good to haooen
Avoidance: avoid what you are not good at, not wanting to fail, want something bad tk not happen
Salami technique
Break down task into smaller tasks
Swiss cheese technique
Make goals until you are able to work on thing
Practice testing
High utility, low stakes testing and self directed, more effective than restudying, recall
T
Elaborate interrogation
Moderate utility, works better when explanation are precise and self directed, focus on similarities
Self explanation
Moderate utility, time consuming, helps with short answer questions, helps with problem solving, explaim info with old and new
Interleaved practice
Moderste efficency, does not work with vocab, reccomended
Techniques that dont work
Summarizing, highlighting, images related to text, rereading
Long term memory
Encoding, storage, retrieval
Encoding
Into into ltm, dependant on if you pay attention,
Storage
Maintaining info from ltm,
Retrieval
Access to info from ltm, dependant on how you encode them
Improving encoding
Structural, phonemic, semenic
Elaborate encoding
Linking new and old info, relating to self, organizing info
Deep processing
Thinking sboutnkeaning of notes is more valuable
Impoving storage
Distributed practice, ovrlearning
Stressors
Events in environment that pose challenge
Appraisal
Person’s judgement abotu whether situation is threatening or challenging
Stress response
Fight or flight, realease if catecholamines and glucocorticoids
Point of jar story
You have to prioritize
It has been demonstrated that involuntary responses sucj as glandular secretions and emotiond can be trsined by means of:
Classical conditioning
My advice on watching out for “triggers” of procrastination was based on:
Operant conditioning
People are often reluctant to start major tasks because the tasks are so intimidating. In class I suggested combating this by means of the:
Salami technique
Which of the following id the most effective study technique, according to dunlosky and colleagues.
Practice testing
Ehich if the following us the best way to schedule one’s study time? (Big exam)
Five or six big study sessions spread out over a month before exam
Pavlov’s experiment in which dogs learned to salivate at the sound of s bell us sn example of:
Classical conditioning
Example of a mastery goal?
University bio student wanting to understand how DNA can code for being tall
Claiming anxiety and getting drunk are examples of:
Self-handicapping
