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True / False

• Actively thinking about what you have just experienced describes experiential processing.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• The first step in reflective learning is to plan daily, weekly, and monthly learning strategies.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• Reflective learning depends on self-monitoring with exceptional learners keeping records of their progress toward learning

goals, such as pages read, hours of studying, and assignments completed.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• Self-reference involves relating new facts, terms, and concepts to one‘s own experiences and to information one already

knows well.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• By using the rSQ4R method to read her textbook, Sierta is engaging in reflective processing.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• When Juan completes his assigned chapter reading in his psychology textbook, he skims back over the chapter, reads over

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method.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• When a student anticipates what the teacher will say by reading the assignment and asking themselves questions before the

lecture is presented, the student is engaging in the LISAN method step called Lead, Don’t follow.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• According to the LISAN method of taking notes, students should try to be like tape recorders, taking down the teacher‘s

lecture word-for-word.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• Most students take reasonably good notes, but then they do not use them until just before a test.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• According to the authors of your textbook, recopying lecture notes and outlining chapters are both poor study strategies.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• Massed practice is superior to spaced practice when studying.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

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• Students that engage in overlearning of test material tend to make lower grades than students who limit their study time.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• Regarding general test-taking skills, it is recommended that students answer the difficult questions first and then the easy

ones.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• If you are unsure of a multiple-choice answer, you are more likely to gain points if you change your answer than if you

stay with your first choice.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• When taking a true-false test, answers that include superlatives, such as most, least, best, worst, largest, and smallest, are

often true.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• Before a student begins writing an answer to an essay question, he or she should make a detailed, elaborate outline of the

answer.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• The best way to prepare for short-answer tests is to overlearn the details of the course and to pay special attention to lists

of related terms.

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