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_____ come from all lifestyles, ages, cultures, and genders.

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Peak Perfomers

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______ become masters at creating excellence by focusing on results.

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Peak Performers

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_______ They know how to change their negative thoughts into positive and realistic affirmations.

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Peak Performers

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_____ focus on their long-term goals and know how to break down goals into daily action steps.

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Peak Performers

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_____ learn to face the fear of making mistakes and working through them.

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Peak Performers

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______use the whole of their intelligence and abilities

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Peak Performers

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Take Responsibility for their actions, behaviors, and decisions.

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Peak Performers

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Know their learning styles and preferences and how to maximize their learning.

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Peak Perfomers

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Take risks and move beyond secure comfort zones

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Peak Performers

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Use critical thinking to solve problems creatively

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Peak Performers

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Make sound judgments and decisions

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Peak Performers

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Are effective at time management and self-management

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Peak Performers

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involve themselves in supportive relationships

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Peak performers

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continually acquire new skills and competencies

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Peak performers

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remain confident resilient

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Peak performers

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are motivated to overcome barriers

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peak performers

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take small, consistent steps that lead to long-term goals.

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peak performers

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The primary strength of every peak performer is?

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A positive attitude

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What is the first step in becoming a peak performer?

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Self-assessment

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self-assessment can help you?

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Understand how you learn best, use critical thinking and reasoning, achieve better grades, and create a positive and motivated state of mind.

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What exactly is critical thinking?

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it is a logical, rational, systematic thought process that is necessary in understanding, analyzing, and evaluating information in order to solve a problem or situation.

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What is visualization?

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it is using your imagination to see your goals clearly and to envision yourself successfully engaging in new, positive behavior.

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What are affirmations?

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they are the positive self-talk-the internal dialogue- you carry on with yourself.

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what does SCANS stand for?

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Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

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What includes business and industry leaders, human resource personnel, and other top advisors in labor and education?

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Peak performance competency wheel

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Peak performance competency wheel:

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illustrates the skills and competencies that are necessary not only for job sucess but also for school.

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Feels more comfortable with facts

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Left Brain Dominant

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Thinks ratonally based on reason and logic

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Left Brain Dominant

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Uses concrete thinking

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Left Brain Dominant

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Likes a sense of order

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Left Brain Dominant

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Uses linear, step-by-step thinking

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Left Brain Dominant

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Uses speech and words

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Left Brain Dominant

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Is more "cerebral"

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Left Brain Dominant

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Makes lists and notes

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Left Brain Dominant

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Is concerned about time

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Left Brain Dominant

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Analyzes parts of the whole

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Left Brain Dominant

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Likes traditional outlines

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Left Brain Dominant

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Likes well-organized lectures

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Left Brain Dominant

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Feels more comfortable with feelings

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Right Brain Dominant

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Thinks intuitively based on hunches and feelings

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Right Brain Dominant

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Uses abstract thinking

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Right Brain Dominant

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Likes a sense of space

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Right Brain Dominant

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Uses holistic, visual thinking

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Right Brain Dominant

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Uses pictures and drawing

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Right Brain Dominant

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Is more "physical"

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Right Brain Dominant

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Uses visuals and colors

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Right Brain Dominant

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Lives in the moment

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Right Brain Dominant

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Looks at the whole for patterns

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Right Brain Dominant

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Likes mind maps or creative outlines

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Right Brain Dominant

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Likes group work and open-ended class discussion

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Right Brain Dominant

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_______ prefer to see information and read material?

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Visual learners

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This learner learns most affectively with pictures, graphs, illustrations, diagrams, time lines, photos, pie charts and visual design.

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Visual learners

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Be right- brain dominant

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Visual learners

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Prefer to have written directions they can read

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Visual learners

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Learns better when someone shows them rather than tells them

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Visual learners

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Like to read for pleasure and to learn

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Visual learners

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This learner prefers to rely on their hearing sense.

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Auditory learner

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This type of learner likes tapes and music, and they prefer to listen to information such as lectures.

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Auditory learner

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They like to talk, recite, and summarize information aloud.

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Auditory learners

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Be left-brain dominant

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Auditory learners

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Remember what they hear better than what they see

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Auditory learners

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Plan the week by talking it through with someone

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Auditory learners

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Use rhyming words to remember

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Auditory learners

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_______ learners are usually well coordinated, like to touch things, and learn best by doing.

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Kinesthetic Learners

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This learner likes to collect samples, write out information, spend time outdoors, and relate to the material they are learning.

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Kinesthetic learners

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Be right-brain dominant

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Kinesthetic Learners

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use hands-on activities

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Kinesthetic learners

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Build things and put things together

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Kinesthetic learners

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Some people are word smart: ability to argue, persuade, entertain, and teach with words.

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Verbal/linguistic

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some people are logic smart:ability to reason, solve problems, create hypotheses, think in terms of cause and effect and explore patterns and relationships.

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Logical/mathematical

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Some people are picture smart: ability to perceive in three-dimensinal space and re-create hypotheses, various aspects of the visual world.

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Spatial

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Some people are music smart: ability to appreciate, perceive, and produce rhythms and to keep time to music.

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Musical

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some poeple are body smart:-ability to understand and control their bodies; they have tactile sensitivity, like movement, and handle objects skillfully

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Bodily/kinesthetic

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some people are outdoor smart: good at measuring, charting, and observing plants and animals.

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Environmental

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Some people are self smart: like to work alone

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Intrapersonal

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Some poeple are people smart: like to talk and work with people, join groups, and solve problems

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Interpersonal

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In 1921, what psychologist identified three main attitudes/ psychological functions people have? What was is called?

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Carl Jung's... Typology system

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______ are energized and recharged by people, tending to be outgoing and social.

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Extrovert

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______ are energized by time alone, solitude, and reflection, perferring the world of ideas and thoughts.

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Introverts

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They have small but close set of friends and are more prone to self-doubt.

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Introverts

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Tend to be optimistic and are often uncomfortable with being alone.

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Extroverts

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Jung classified this FIRST:

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How people relate to external or internal world.

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Jung developed this SECOND:

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How people perceive and gather information.

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____ learn best from their senses and feel comfortbale with facts and concrete data.

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Sesnors

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Like to organize information systematicallys:

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sensors

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_____ feel more comfortable with theories, abstraction, imagination and speculation.

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Intuitives

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Rely on hunches and nonverbal perceptions:

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Intuitives

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Jung characterized this THIRD:

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how people prefer to make decisions.

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_______like to anaylze problems with facts, rational logic, and analysis.

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Thinkers

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Tend to be unemotional and use a systematic evaluation of data and facts for problem solving.

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Thinkers

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_____are sensitive to the concerns and feelings of others, value harmoney, and dislike creating conflict.

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Feelers

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MBTI

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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______ prefer orderly, planned, structure learning and working environments.

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Judgers

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Like control and closure:

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Judgers

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_____prefer flexibility and spontaneity and like to allow life to unfold.

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Perceivers

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_______ provides 16 possible personality combinations.

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MBTI

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_____ tend to be logical, thoughtful, loyal, exact, dedicated, steady, and organized.

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Analyzers

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Like following direction and work at a steady pace.

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Analyzers

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Tend to be left-brained and seem more concerened with facts, abstract ideas, and concepts than people.

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Analyzers

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______tend to be cooperative, honest, sensitive, warm, and understanding.

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Supporters

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Value harmony and are informal, approachable, and tactful.

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Supporters

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Relate well to others:

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Supporters

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Tend to learn best when they like an instructor and feel accepted and respected.

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Supporters

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Easily hurt by criticism

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Supporters

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Relate to instructors who are warm and sociable, tell interesting stores, use visuals, and are approachable:

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Supporters

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Learn best by listening, sharing ideas and feelings, and working in teams

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Supporters

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_____ are innovative, flexible, spontaneous, creative, and idealistic

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Creators

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Risk-takers; love drama, style, and imaginative design.

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Creators

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Like games, role-playing, stories, plays, music, illustrations, drawings, and other visual stimuli.

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Creators

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____ are dependable, self-directed, conscientious, efficient, decisive, and results-orientated.

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Directors

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Relate to instructors who are organzied, clear to the point, punctual, and results-orientated.

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Directors

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____________ __________ is the ability to understand and manage yourself and relate effectively to others.

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Emotional intelligence

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______ is the ability to control your impules, to think beyond the moment, and to consider how your words and actions affect yourself and others before you act.

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maturity

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What are the 3 things employers look for:

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1. ability to adapt to change 2. Lust to succeed 3. are you plain pleasant to work around

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______ set of strong, moral, principals which will successfuly resist the temptation to comprimize.

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Integrity

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_____ _____ is an essential personal quality for true success in school, work, and life.

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Good character

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___ ___has a core set of principles that most of us accept as constant and relatively noncontroversial

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Good Character

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These principles include fairness, honesty, respect, responsibility, caring, trustworthiness, and citzenship.

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Good Character

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If an employer believes that an employee lacks______, all of that person's positive qualities are meaningless.

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Integrity

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If you keep your word, or you have a principle that's in your gut you have:

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Integrity

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____ is the integration of your principles and actions.

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integrity

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____ is a set of tools interacting with others with respect, kindness, and good manners, or etiquette.

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Civility

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_____ is more than good manners and politeness.

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Civility

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____- understanding and compassion for others- is essential for integrity and civility.

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Empathy

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____ is when you feel sorry for them

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sympathy

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____ is when you have been there

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Empathy

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____ are the principles of conduct that govern a group or society

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Ethics

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____ take responsibility for their thoughts, state of mind, and behavior.

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Peak performers

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_____ don't blame others for their problems, they use their engergy to solve them.

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Peak performers

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_____ are persistent and patient.

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Peak performers

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Exert a consistent amount of high effort to achieve their goals, they also keep their word and agreements.

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Peak performers

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______ if anger were a disease, there would be an epidemic in this country.

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Self- Control

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The first step in self control is ____ ____. Step back from the situation and take a deep breath.

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calm down

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Take the ____ out of the situation and observe what is happeing, what behavior is triggering angry emotions, and what options you have in responding in appropriate and positive ways.

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drama

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The second step in Self Control is:

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Clarify and define

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Determine exactly with whom or what you are angry and why

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Clarify and define

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The third step in self-control is

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Listening with empathy and respect

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Empathy includes the ability to listen, understand, and respond to the feelings and needs of others. Take the tension out of the conflict by really listening and understanding the other person's point of view

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listening with empathy and respect

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______ overall evaluation of compitence and personal worthiness

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self-esteem

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_____ ____ ____ is a foretelling of events to happen because you believed or allowed them to.

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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____ ___ ____ it illustrates how your self-esteem influence what you say to yourself, which in turn influences your physical reactions-breathing, muscular tension, and posture.

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The motivation Cycle

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the first motivational strategy is: attitude can influence behavior, and behavior can influence attitude.

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Act as if you were motivated

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the second motivation strategy is : any discussion of motivation must include your self-talk, what you say to yourself thoughout the day.

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Use affirmations

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the sixth motivational strategy is:

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study in teams

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____ means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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synergy

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College graduates earn an average of well over _______- more in a lifetime than do high school graduates.

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$800,000

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Attends work/class everyday and is on time and prepared:

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A peak perfomer or an A student

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Frequenlty does more than is required

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A good worker or a B student

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Completes the tasks that are required

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An average worker or a C student

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Usually does the minimum of what is required

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A problem worker or a D student

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Does not do the work this is required

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An unacceptable worker or an F student

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Give 4 reasons that 30 to 50 percent of college freshman never graduate:

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1. Poor study skills and habits 2. Lack of time-management skills 3. too much partying 4. failure to attend class regularly

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Peak performers use a systematic approach that allows them to :

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1. avoid crisess 2. have more free time to enjoy life 3. accomplish goals and priorities

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___ ___ is much more than focusing on minutes, hours, and days.

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Time management

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Your attitude, energy level, and ability to concentrate have a great impact on how well you ________ _____.

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Manage time

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___ __ is devoted to school, labs, studying, work, communting, and other activites involving the immediate and long-term goals you have commintted to accomplishing

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Committed Time

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_______ ______ is the time you spend maintaining your self. such as eating, sleeping, grooming, exercising and maintaining your home.

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Maintenance time

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___ ___ is the time that is yours to use as you please. Time for the things you value most in life.

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Discretionary time

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what is the frist rule of time management?

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it is to make a commitment to what you want to accomplish-set goals

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______ ____ are pressing, deadline-driven projects or activites, such as dropping a class, paying your fees, or turning in papers.

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Urgent priorities

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____ ____ are essential activities that support your long-term goals and create the results you want-- not just for today but als for future success. EX attending every class, creating study teams, and completing homework.

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important priorities

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____ ___ require continual attention and may be urgent, but they may not be important.

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Ongoing activities

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____ ____ make up all the daily stuff of life and many are major time wasters. Maybe fun, such as talking on the phone with friends, chatting online, or going shopping.

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Trivial activites

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The first time-management strategie is:

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1. keep a calendar

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The third time-management strategie is:

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3. Do the tough tasks first

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The fourth time-management strategie is:

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break projects down into smaller tasks.

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The fifth time-management strategie is:

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consolidate similar tasks

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The sixth time-management strategie is:

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study at your high energy time

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the seventh time -management strategie is:

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study everywhere and anywhere

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Many time-management strategies are designed for people with ____ ___ ___.

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left brain dominance

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__--____ ____ people like routine, structure, and deadlines.

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Left-brain dominant

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Left brain dominant people tend to be ______ _____ because they are good at looking at several unrelated items and bringing order to them.

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convergent thinkers

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____ ___ ___ people like variety, flexibility, creativy, and innovation.

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right-brain dominant

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Right-brain dominant people are usually ______ ____ because they branch out from one idea to many.

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divergent thinkers

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They are good at brainstorming because one idea leads to another. They focus on the whole picture.

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Divergent thinkers

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What is the 1st barrier to overcome obstacles

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stop procrastinating

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_____ is deliberatley putting off tasks, and most of us at one time or another have been guilty ofutting off doing what we know should be done.

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procrastination

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what are some reasons for procrastination?

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1. prefer to do things they like rather than what they should be doing 2. worry and get weighed down with details or overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks. 3. easily distracted, blame others, or don't want to be told what to do.

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To avoid procrastination you should: 1. set daily priorites:

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visualize yourself completing projects and tasks and achieving your goals

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To avoid procrastination you should: 5. surround yourself with supportive people:

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sometimes talking out loud can help you clarify why you are avoiding a project.

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What is the 2nd barrier? Control interruptions:

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JUST SAY NO

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when juggling family, school and job you should:

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find a good day care.

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_____means that you are fully focused with the intent on understanding the speaker

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Attentive Listening

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We spend __ percent or more of our time communicating; of that time, almost half ___ to ____ is spent listenning

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80, 45 to 50

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_____ is a consuming activity that requires physical and mental attenton, energy, concentration, and discipline

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Attentive listening

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_____ requires respect, empathy, genuine interest, and the desire to understand.

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attentive listening

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What is the process of putting meaning to and receiving messages?

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Listening

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What is the 1st step on listening?

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Attending

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__ is of all the stimuli that bombards us, we focus on that which meets a physical or mental need

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attending

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What is the first way to prepare to listen?

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Be willing to listen: the 1st place to start is with your intention

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Listening is ___ rather than a ______ process

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active, passive

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What is the 2nd way to prepare to listen?

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Be open to new ideas- people resist change, new ideas, or different beliefs.

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What is the fourth way to prepare to listen?

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reduce distractions- avoid sitting next to a friend or someone who likes to talk or is distracting

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A way to stay attentive is to?

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Don't get caught up in the drama.

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____ is not a passive act of simply writing down words.

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note taking

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____ is a way to order and arrange thoughts and materials to help you remember information.

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Note taking

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the Cornell system of note taking is what side of the brian

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left brainers

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What was developed in the 1950's by walter pauk at Cornell University

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The Cornell system of note taking

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This method integrates text and lecture notes and includes a summary section:

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the cornell system

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___-is a visual, holistic form of note taking

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Mind map

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What is the advantage of a mind map?

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you can see the big picture, and the connections to the main idea

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What is the first strategie for note taking

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1. preview the material (skim the chapter)

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what is the second strategie for note taking?

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2.Go to every class and pay attention. you can't take notes if your not there and someone elses might not be that good!

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What is the fourth strategie for note taking?

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Sit up front- you will be more physically alert.

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What is the 6th strategie for note taking?

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Make note taking active and physical- it gets your blow flowing throughout your body.

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what is the eighth strategie for note taking?

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use creative shorthand and focus on key words.- a common mistakes students make is trying to write down everything the instructors says.

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what is the first strategie for assess and reviewing your notes

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1. Summarize in your own words-

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what is the fifth strategie for assess and reviewing your notes

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review your notes

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memory is not a _____, it is not a _____, memory is a ____

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muscle, organ, process

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____ is a complex process that involes many factors that you can control, such as your attitude, interest, intent, awareness, mental alterness, observation skills, senses, distractions, memory techniques, and willingness to practice.

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memory

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most people with ____ memories say that skill is mastered by learning and continually practicing the strategies for storing and recalling info.

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good

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The memory process involves 5 main steps list them:

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1. intention, attention, association, retention, and recall

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The first step for memory process is :

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Intention- the first step in using memory effectively is to prepare yourself mentally. your intention, attitiude, and motivation are fundamentals to success.

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Intention means

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that you are interested and willing to learn

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The second step for memory process is

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the second step in the memory process is to concentrate, observe, and be attentive to details

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Mindfulness is the state

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in which you are totally in the moment and part of the process around you.

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Learning occurs when

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the mind is relaxed, focused, receptive, and alert

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Focus your attention by

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concentrating briefly on one thing. visualize details by drawing mental pictures.

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The third step for memory process is

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Association- nothing is harder to remember than unconnected facts, dates, or theories

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By associating and linking new material with old material you:

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you make it meaningful

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You cannot ____ or ____ info unless you understand it

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retain or recall

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________means that you can see connections and relationships in the unfo you are studying and you can summarize and explain this material in your own words

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understanding

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Make associations by looking for _______ or _______.

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similarities or differences

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Create understanding by finding out why this info is _____and how it ____to other info

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important , relates

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Learn a subject so that it becomes ____ and_______ of your ___-_______ _______.

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interesting , part, long-term memory

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One way to organize material is to look for ______ by __________ each chapter

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connections, outlining

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The fourth step for memory process is

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retention- repetition and practice help you retian info

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Practice what you have _____, find new ____, and _____ this info with other info you already know.

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learned, applications, connect

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The fifth memory process is

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Recall

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Memorization

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is the transfer of info from short-term memory into long-term memory

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The only reason to do (recall) is so that we can ____ it in the future for use by our ____-____ ______

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retrieve, shot-term memory

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To recall info means

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ou not only have retained it but also can remember it when you need to.

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____ the info, ___ about it, ____about it, ___ it to new situations, and demonstrate that you know it.

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teach, write, talk, and apply

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_______ this cycle will build your memory skills

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Repeating

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What is the first memory strategy

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1. write it down

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writing is ______ and ____

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physical, enhances

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When you write down info, you are _________ learning by using your eyes, hand, fingers, and arm

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reinforcing

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writing uses different parts of the _____ than do speaking and listening

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brain

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Writing down a telephone number helps you ________it by providing a ______ picture.

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remembering, mental

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Planning your time in a ___ _____and creating a ____-_____ list can trigger accomplishing tasks later in the day when you may have bcome overwhelmed with distractions

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day planner, to-do

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_______ notes in class prompts you to be ___ and ____and fills in memory gaps

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Taking, logical, concise

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_____importand info and then copying it onto note cards reinforces info

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underlining

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Writing a _____after reading a chapter also reinforces info

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summary

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_____ in your own words helps transfer info to _____-______ memory

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Summarizing, long-term

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what is the second memory process

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go from the gerneral to the specific- looking a the big picture and then learning the details

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Try to ____ from the general (_____ ____) to the specific (_____)

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outline, main topic, subtopics

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________ a chapter gives you an ______ and makes the topic more meaningful

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previewing, overview

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Your __ is more______ to specific details when it has a general idea of the main topic.

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brain, receptive

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What is the third memory process

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reduce info

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what is the fourth memory process

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eliminate distractions- one way to avoid distractions is to study in a quiet area

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what is the fifth memory process

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study in short sessions- 30-40 mins then take a break

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what is the seventh memory process

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use all your senses.

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memory is ____, so using all your senses will give your brain a better chance or ________ info

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sensory, retaining

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what you want to remember...the art of retention is the art of attention.

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Visualize-

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you can't truly remember anything if you are not fully listening

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listen

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you will retain info better if you use all your senses and make learning physical

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move-

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any memory trick that assists you in remembering

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mnemonic device-

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grouping, long lists of info or numbers can break up the memory task and make it easier for you

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chuncking

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Most people can remember up to __-numbers in a row

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seven

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This method, which is similar to the stacking technique, s still effective today because it uses imagery and association to aid memory

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Method- of -place technique

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Method-of-place technique is called

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loci

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Memorize a setting in ___ and then ____the item or info you want to remember at certain places on your _______ _____.

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detail, place, memory map

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the nineth memory process is

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use note cards-info is condensed and written.

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Act of writing is ______and holding cards is tactile

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kinesthetic

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Note cards are ______, and when the info is ___out loud or in a group, the _____element enchances learning

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visual, recited , auditory

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the tenth memory process is

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recite- and repeat info

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Summarize, Review and Reflect

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after only 48 hrs, you may have forgotten 70 percent of what you have learned.

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If you review after you hear it and again within ____ hrs, you recall soars to ____ percent

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24, 90

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Overcome obstacles

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a barrier to memory is disinterest. you have to want to remember.

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