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The first step to take to becoming a master student is to be truthful about you and recognize your strengths and weaknesses.

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QWe learn by perceiving and processing information.

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A mode 1 learner always asks WHAT? They want to know main facts, ideas and procedures and explain events or ask experts.

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Learning is continuous. It is a process.

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The 4 modes of learning are concrete, experience, reflective, abstract thinking, and inquisitive.

- Goes beyond technique.

- Methods and procedures are automatic responses to the needs of the task.

- Brings more of themselves to their work.

- Working harder, write more, and have more to remember.

- Fewer  reminders from instructors and feedback on how well you are doing in class.

- Preventyou from taking responsibility for your education.

- Prevent changes in your attitude and adopting new behaviors.

- Prevent your learning from any instructor.

- Will fester complaints and say my instructor doesn't teach to my learning style. 

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Time is an equal opportunity resource.

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You must approach time as if you are in control.

- Monitoring your activities to get a detailed picture of how you spend your time.

- Record how much time you spend sleeping, eating, studying, attending lecture, traveling to and from class, working, watching TV, listening to music, taking care of the kids, running errands - everything.

- Evaluate how you spend your time.

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Writing down your goals increases your chances of meeting them.

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Shrot-term goals are goals that you can accomplish in a year or less like completing a course or group of courses less than a year or organizing a family reunion.

- Keeps activities in context.

- Visually seeing your daily goals relating to your long-term goals.

- Fosters a sense of accomplishment.

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Surfing Websites, sending e-mails, and instant messaging can be fun but they can also make hours disappear.

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TIke management means planning. Planning is about getting the important things done, so, mind planning is a way of plotting your day.

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Planning allows you to avoid scheduling conflicts and periods of exhaustion.

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Educational psychologists recently discovered that all long-term memories are set by emotional markers (connections between neurons) when new information learning fires or connects with existing information.

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Memory is a process. Each of those memories involves millions of nerve cells, or neurons, firing chemical messages to each other.

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Short-term memory allows you to recall information from day to day, week to week, and year to year.

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Paths are called neural traces. The more well-worn the neural traces, the easier it is to retrieve (find) the thought.

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Remembering is a process in whichyou encoded information as links between active neurons that fire together. You also decode, or reactivate, neurons that were wired together in the past.

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Physically your brain changes by growing more connections between neurons whenever you learn something new.

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When reading, always look at chapter review, summaries, and review questions. Visual elements such as tables, charts, graphs, and illustrations.

Tricks the increase memory ability to recall. Such as: s

Sentences and Songs.

- Is an instrument for searching for answer.

- It can help deepen your understanding of the text while allowing information to be transferred into long term memory.

- Helps you to get a "feel" for the subject. 

- Read for a half-hour and take a break.

- Visualize the material (mental pictures)

- Read the material aloud.

- Sit up, keep your sine straight, use the edge of your chair, and avoid reading in bed.

- Circlling key terms and words.

- Write a short definition of key terms in the margin.

- Draw diagrams, pictures, tables or maps that translate text into visual terms.

- Remember each step in a list or series of related points.

- Arranging study time at a school before goings home.

- Spend 10 minutes of study break with your children for every 50 minutes that you study.

- Developing and keeping a regular study time and let children, family and friends know your schedule.

- Ask spouse, parent, neighbor or a fellow student take care of your children.

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Grades are NOT a measure of intelligence or creativity and test scores tend to determine how we feel about ourselves.

Put undue pressure on your performance.

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Cause mental blockage and or sickness.

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predicting tet questions for upcoming tests will not only keep you focused but also alert to possible test qusetions.

- Instructor's gestures, a pause, look at notes or reading word for word.

- When the instructor have any strong point of view on certain matter.

- Instructor's body language 

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Quiz questions have a way of reappearing possibly on an altered form on final exams.

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You should NOT save all quizzes, papers, lab sheets, and graded material of any kind.

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If any part of the true/false question is false, then the entire statement is false.

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Checking for numbers, fact, and dates are very critical because the facts could be altered making the statement false.

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On matching tests you should first read the phrase and then look for the word that logically completes the phrase.

- Brainstorm and make a quick outline using key words. 

- Begin your answer with part of the question and expand your answer with supporting ideas and facts.

- Remember that sloppy written work, poor grammar and numerous spelling errors may lower your grade.

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When trained, a critical thinker processes inside the head the basic elements of communication when reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

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Critical thinking is a path to freedom from half-truths and deception. You have the right to question everything that you see, hear, read.

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A critical or thorough thinker is also willing to change his/her opinion(s) while in the process for seeking the truth.

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A critical or thorough thinker will take the time to understand a statement of opinion before agreeing or disagreeing with it.

Hot spots are topics that provoke strong opinions and feelings. Which is NOT a hot spot?

- Mike Tyson is a better boxer than Mohammad Ali.

** Homeless people are lazy.

- The state should boring back the death penalty for all sex offenders.

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One technique to a way to create ideas is to brainstorm.

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Standing improves our ability to problem solve.

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Assumptions are unconscious assertions that guide our thinking and behavior.

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Looking for documentation, you should look for credible quotations form authorities in the field, documented statistics, or summaries of scientific studies.

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Asking questions are also a great way to improve relationships with friends and coworkers. When you asks a question, you offer an opportunity for them to speak and for you to listen to their answer.

- The person or organization credibility posted on Website.

- List of author credentials and publications.

- Distinguish among information from profit commercial enterprise (URL ending In .com).

 - Nonprofit organization (.org); a government agency (.gov); and a school, college, or university (.edu).

- Being quiet while the other person is speaking.

- Maintain good eye contact.

- Make acknowledgement.

- Give feedback and ask questions to clarify.

- Demonstrate your attentiveness.

- Helps keeps your mind from wandering.

- Let's you observe the speaker's body language and behavior.

- People watch your actions.

- Your posture.

- The way you dress.

- Hand gestures.

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In dealing with conflict, our objective is to win and solve the problem later.

- Dealing with the content of a conflict.

- Defining the problem.

- Exploring viewpoints.

- Discovering solutions.

- Finding a process for resolving any conflict.

- Home address - School address - Phone number 

- Birth date - Screen name - Class schedule

- Financial info (SS#, bank account#, & Credit card #)

- Info about places that you regularly go @ certain times

-Info about places you plan to visit in the future

- Provocative picture or messages with sexual innuendos

-Picture of you at school or work 

- Plans for vacation or out-of-town visits

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A thesis statement is a summary in one concise sentence.

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50% of writing time is planning, research, and writing the first draft. The other 50% of your paper is revising, revising, and revising, and checking for details, grammar mistakes, spelling, and using action verbs.

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The main body of your speech accounts to 70% - 90%.

- Research topic thoroughly.

- Know it well.

- Focus on the content and not the delivery.

- Practice, practice, and practice your presentation. 

- Differences of any type.

- Differences in physical appearances, language, social, economic background, and behavior.

- Keep your temper in check

- Talk in private.

- Allow the other person his/her space.

- And address the other as equal.

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Walking by and I see discrimination, I should say nothing.

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Looking over individual differences and assuming that every member of a group is the same is called stereotyping?

- Arranging for priority registration.

- Reducing a course load.

- Substituting a course for another. 

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There are Lon laws against sexual harassment in schools, stores, and the workplace.

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When women are not called on in clason and their comments are ignored or they are overly praised in some way is called sexism.

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Instead of seeing people based on skin color, look at them from their heredity.

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Money produces more unnecessary conflict and worry than almost anything else. Most money problems result from spending more than is available.

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prioritizing spending with a simple budget csn help students avoid paying late fees.

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Setting up a separate account to have set bills paid automatically from their bank account relieves writing monthly checks and mail delivery hassles and worries. 

- Buy a shredder and destroy all ATM receipts as soon as the monthly transactions appear.

- Never give your card or PIN to anyone.

- Ask to swipe your own card in department stores or watch your card when it leaves your hand and until it returns to your hand from the clerk.

- Make sure the clerk is not copying or imaging your card.

- Note you plans for next month.

- For recording the details about what you earn and spend each day of the month.

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The potential problem and downfall for many people is that they continue spending more than they make even at higher incomes.

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The most important assest you have is what Henry Ford said in his statement, skill, knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. 

- Keep account information and SS# private, use a secure URL, don't manage your money on public computers, and don't store passwords and login information for sites that you use to manage money because anyone could hack into  your account.

- Do not click link verifying your account number, PIN, password, SS#, and other private information.

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Comserving energy in the home means NOT to turn off the light in unoccupied rooms, keep windows and doors closed in winter and cook for yourself by preparing and cooking your favorite meals.

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A GOOD Credit rating will serve you for a lifetime but a POOR Credit Rating can keep you from getting the car of house of your dreams.

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Credit Cards often come with a hefty interest rate, sometimes as high as 20%. When you rely on high- interest credit cards month to month, you can lose one-fifth (1/5) of your monthly income to interest charges.

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Freely use credit cards offering low interest rates for they are a great source for spare cash.

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The word health in origin means whole which includes alertness, vitality, vigor, sound in body, mind, and spirit.

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Health is a continuum and is not a fixed state, so the health that you create is your personal responsibility.