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
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Elaborate interrogation
Moderate utility, works better when explanation are precise and self directed, focus on similarities
