1510A Midterm Study Guide - Drotos

The following chapters will be tested on the Midterm:

1, 2, 3, 4, 8, Developing Efficient Reading Rates, (p. A135-A165), and Gaining Self Awareness (p. A40-A67)

Note: Test may not be limited to items on this study guide. You should not only be able to name items, but you should understand them as well.

Chapter 1: Discovering and Using Your Learning Styles

Howard Gardner: Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Exercise 1.6, page 30)

Chapter 2: Processing Information into Your Memory

Metacognition

Selective Attention

Short-term Memory

Overload in Working Memory

Schemas

Tracking Your Thought Patterns

Effective Strategies for Working Memory (Appendix B, Exercise 2.6, page A6 and p. 53-55)

Chapter 3: Using Twelve Principles of Memory

12 Principles of Memory (Checkpoint 3.4 page 88, Chapter 3 Review p. 89)

Chapter 4: Becoming a time Manager and a Goal Setter (Checkpoint 4.2 p. 107)

Kinds of schedules

Six essential strategies for scheduling fixed study blocks (p. 101)

Six more essential strategies (p. 103)

Adjusting to change

Different kinds of goals

Four-step approach for Achieving Goals

ABC Method

Chapter 8: Learning from College Textbook

Active Reading (Essential Strategies for Active Reading 8.1 p. 214)

Finding Meaning in Difficult Text

SQ4R Reading System

3:1 Study Ratio for Some Science Classes (p. 245)

Developing Efficient Reading Rates

Skimming vs.Scanning

Reading Faster (table on p. A155 What is a moderate, average, and efficient reader?)

Increasing Reading Speed (p A161)

Gaining Self-Awareness

Scripts

Diagram p. A45

How we wrote our scripts

Three success rules