Unit 9 Final Exam Study Guide

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Unit 9 Final Exam Study Guide

• LS100 Eight Skills
• Prof. Jane McElligott

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Final Exam Details

• Final Exam opens the first day of Unit 9,
  Wednesday, January 11th and remains open through
  Tuesday, January 17th at midnight.
• Total of 37 Questions 15 True/False (worth 4
  points each) and 22 Multiple Choice (worth 5
  points each) for a total of 170 points.
• You have 2 hours to take the exam.
• To prepare for the exam, be sure to review the
  following chapters in Cornerstone
• Chapter 3, Prioritize (Time Management)
• Chapter 4, Read (Active Reading Skills)
• Chapter 5, Learn (Multiple Intelligences and
  Learning Styles)
• Chapter 7, Remember (Memory Tools)
• Chapter 9, Think (Critical Thinking)

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Practice Exam Questions

• 1. When you think critically, you are evaluating
  all of the information you have available,
  deciding what is true or not true, and making
  your own decisions about what you believe. True
  or False? 

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Answer to Question 1

• The answer is .. True!
• When engaging in critical thinking, you
  evaluate all available information, decide what
  is true or not true, and make your own decisions
  about what you believe based on this analysis.
  Its all about employing your own analysis and
  looking at the issue in different perspectives to
  come to your own conclusions.
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Question 2

• 2. Guidelines for trying to distinguish fact
  from opinion include which of the following
• Listen to everything that is said in a statement
• Listen for what is not said in a statement
• Do not bother asking for documentation to support
  the statement, as they probably do not have it
  with them
• Follow your intuition regarding those whom you
  trust

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Answer to Question 2

• Answer Listen for what is not said in a
  statement
• See Chapter 9, Cornerstone, p. 214, Step Six
  Distinguishing Fact from Opinion, where it lists
  guidelines to consider when trying to
  differentiate fact from opinion. Listen for what
  is not said in a statement means that the
  statement does not cite reliable sources as
  authority doesnt address arguments against the
  statement and perhaps leaves key points out.
• Key methods to distinguish fact from opinion are
  to research, read, and question seek out
  reliable relevant articles and scholarly sources
  to get the real story and question proponents of
  what seems to you to be mere opinion to see if
  they have anything to back themselves up play
  Socrates!

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Question 3

• 3. Knowing why you are reading something can
  help you become a more active reader. True or
  False?

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Answer to Question 3

• Answer True. An important part of active
  reading is your mind-set (attitude) as you
  begin the reading process (Chapter 4, p. 85).
  Knowing why you are reading an assignment
  (thinking about the purpose of this assignment
  and what you are learning) and approaching it
  with a positive, open-mind will help you delve
  into it and engage in active reading.
• The Surveying step of the SQ3R reading method is
  a good way to figure out for sure why you are
  reading this assignment and what you are about to
  learn see Chapter 4, p. 93.

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Question 4

• 4. Unfamiliar words will only become part of
  your vernacular if you stop and look them up.
  True or False?

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Answer to Question 4

• Answer True. To build your vocabulary, its
  essential when you come across a new or
  unfamiliar word in a reading assignment to stop
  and look it up in the dictionary. By getting in
  the practice of looking up new words and
  remembering such meanings, youll be building
  your vocabulary and these words will become part
  of your vernacular (ordinary language) and you
  will not have to stop and look them up anymore.
  Chapter 4, p. 90.

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Question 5

• 5. Reading for pleasure can help you on your
  road to critical thinking. True or False?

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Answer to Question 5

• Answer True. Reading for pleasure is a great
  way to build not only your reading comprehension
  skills and vocabulary, but it is also valuable
  for building critical thinking skills, given that
  reading a variety of topics increases your
  breadth of knowledge and exposes you to issues
  and ideas you might not run into in the reading
  you do for your classes. Chapters 4 and 9.

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Question 6

• 6. The best way to develop a dynamic vocabulary
  is to
• Listen to public orators
• Study a dictionary
• Read, read, read
• Learn a foreign language

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Answer to Question 6

• Answer read, read, read. The key to building a
  dynamic vocabulary is to read, read, read! The
  more you read for school and for fun, the more
  variety of new words youll run into and by
  looking them up and remembering them (you could
  make flash cards of the new words), they will be
  part of your everyday vocabulary!
• Studying a dictionary by itself is not as
  valuable because you wont see the words in
  context as you do when reading by seeing how
  words are used in a book or article and then
  looking up the words, youll have a much better
  grasp of the meaning of such words.

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Question 7

• 7. A conclusion that you come to based on
  evidence, which can help you determine the main
  idea of a paragraph is a(n)
• Inference
• Guess
• Generalization
• None of the above

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Answer to Question 7

• Answer Inference. An inference when you make a
  conclusion or deduction from the evidence and is
  a key part of critical thinking. It is important
  to first research the issue and find reliable
  evidence relating to the issue and then deduct or
  infer your conclusions based on this evidence.

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Question 8

• 8. Paul communicates well through language,
  likes to write, and loves to read. He is high in
  which intelligence?
• Musical/rhythm
• Visual/spatial
• Logic/math
• None of the above

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Answer to Question 8

• Answer None of the above. Paul would have a
  high score in the verbal/linguistic intelligence.
  Those who score high in this category are word
  smart and its all about words for such learners
  enjoying reading, writing, and speaking words.
  Word smart learners are very effective
  communicators and writers and enjoy reading and
  telling stories. Verbal/linguistic learners
  often score high on the VARK as Read/Write
  learners.

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Question 9

• 9. The way in which each learner begins to
  concentrate on, process, and retain new and
  difficult information is known as
• Audio-visual integration
• Learning style
• Educational strategy
• Mental articulation

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Answer to Question 9

• Answer Learning style. Learning style is
  defined as the way in which each learner begins
  to concentrate on, process, and retain new and
  difficult information (Chapter 5, p. 113).
  Note that a learning style differs from learning
  strategy in that a learning strategy is a
  technique used to learn and remember key
  material, such as taking notes, creating and
  reviewing flash cards, etc., but learning style
  is sensory, involving seeing, hearing, and
  touching (Chapter 5, p. 113). Visual learners
  learn best by seeing information auditory
  learners learn best by hearing information and
  tactile (kinesthetic) learners learn best by
  touching or doing hands-on practice.

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Question 10

• 10. When you have literally memorized something
  and find that it is gone from memory days later,
  you have engaged in
• Rote memorization
• Long-term memorization
• Comprehension memorization
• None of the above

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Answer to Question 10

• Answer Rote memorization. Rote memory is a
  task of repeating until you have memorized
  (Chapter 7, p. 162). This is done by students
  who just want to pass an exam without really
  wanting to learn the material so they know it
  and own it and commit it to long-term memory.
  Always strive to know (understand) the material.
  Knowing is making a commitment to understanding
  relationships, making relationships, making
  associations, comparing and contrasting,
  classifying, demonstrating, describing, and
  applying what you have learned (Chapter 7, p.
  162).

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Make me proud on the exam!