UTS Module 6 - Learning to be a better student

Question 1

This plays critical role in controlling the body and facilitating learning

Answer 1

The brain

Question 2

The brain is divided into _______?

Answer 2

The forebrain, the midbrain, and the hindbrain.

Question 3

The outermost layer found in the forebrain is the _______?

Answer 3

Cortex

Question 4

The cortex is further divided into. . . ?

Answer 4

The left and right cerebral hemispheres

Question 5

This hemisphere controls the right hand, your spoken and written language, reading, analysis of detail, logical processes, and mathematical calculations.

Answer 5

The Left hemisphere

Question 6

This hemisphere controls the left hand, nonverbal language, visual-spatial perception, music and artistic processing, emotional thought and recognition, gestalt processes, facial recognition

Answer 6

The Right hemisphere

Question 7

Connecting the two hemispheres is the. . . ?

Answer 7

Corpus Callosum

Question 8

The central hemisphere is divided into four sections or lobes, called . . . ?

Answer 8

Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital

Question 9

This lobe performs the executive functions, thinking, planning, organizing, problem solving, emotions, personality.

Answer 9

Frontal

Question 10

This lobe is responsible for auditory processing, language comprehension, speech, and memory

Answer 10

Temporal

Question 11

This lobe is responsible for perception, intelligence, reasoning, makin sense of the world, language, sensation, reading

Answer 11

Parietal

Question 12

This lobe is reponsible for visual perception and interpretation

Answer 12

Occipital

Question 13

A behavioral psychologist that theorized the two types of behaviors. Who is the psychologist and what are the two types?

Answer 13

B.F. Skinner. The two types are respondent and operant behavior.

Question 14

This behavior is an automatic, involuntary response to a stimulus, such as sneezing when there is dust.

Answer 14

Respondent behavior

Question 15

This other concept is spontaneously acted out behavior in an environment to affect change in it. Unlike respondent behavior, this one is learned and voluntary.

Answer 15

Operant behavior

Question 16

A famous experiment on respondent behavior involving a dog and food (stimulus) was conducted by. . . ?

Answer 16

Ivan Pavlov

Question 17

Ivan Pavlov called his work the theory of. . . ?

Answer 17

The Theory of Classical Conditioning

Question 18

Classical Conditioning can be divided into three processes, those being

Answer 18

Unconditioned response, conditioning, and conditioned response

Question 19

In simple terms, this means thinking about the way you are thinking

Answer 19

Metacognition

Question 20

Metacognition involves two processes, what are they?

Answer 20

The first is knowledge of cognition, know the factors that will help you perform better in your studies. Identify different strategies and know when to use them appropriately. The second is the regulation of this cognition, plan and decide on the level you intend to achieve. Monitor how you are learning and take control of it, then evaluate your regulation process.

Question 21

This learning technique generates your own explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true.

Answer 21

Elaborative Interrogation (moderate)

Question 22

Explaining how new information is related to new information or explaining steps taken during problem solving

Answer 22

Self-explanation (Moderate)

Question 23

Writing summaries of the text to be learned

Answer 23

Summarization (Low)

Question 24

Marking potentially important portions of the materials while reading

Answer 24

Highlighting/Underlining (Low)

Question 25

Using keywords to associate verbal materials

Answer 25

Keyword mnemonic (Low)

Question 26

Forming mental images of text materials

Answer 26

Imagery for text (low)

Question 27

Restudying text materials again after an initialreading

Answer 27

Rereading (Low)

Question 28

Self-testing or taking practice tests over the to-be-learned material

Answer 28

Practice testing (High)

Question 29

Implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time

Answer 29

Distributed Practice (High)

Question 30

Implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that combines different types of material within a single study session

Answer 30

Interleaved Practice (Moderate)

Question 31

According to this person, generating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors towards attaining your goals, manifests self-regulation.

Answer 31

Zimmerman (2000)

Question 32

The process of regulation involves three cyclical phases

Answer 32

Forethought, performance, and self-reflection

Question 33

In this phase, when you first set goals and strategically plan before you embark on learning something new, you have already begun your cycle of self reflection,.

Answer 33

The forethought phase

Question 34

In the performance phase, behavioral implementation will call for self-control and self-observation. The techniques identified by Dunlosky will be applicable so the effective learning takes place.

Answer 34

The performance phase

Question 35

This last phase includes processes you undertake after learning something, evaluation and assessment, which helps determine if you were on the right track of learning.

Answer 35

Self-evaluation