FAS0210 Fall 2023

Study questions chapter 1

1. Identify three study skills challenges you have.

Studying with friends

organizing an essay
Writing and completing a strong essay

2. Identify three study skills strengths you think you have.

Setting goals

Setting goals
Establishing priorities
Controlling test anxiety

3. How can study skills help you get what you want?

Having good study skills will help me complete assignments and still have
time for a full social life, as well. Effective study skills will help me develop
discipline to effectively structure my day, since college is very different from
high school. Primarily, the focus will be on academic success, but these
skills will also carry over my life outside of class and transfer to my career
and relationships.

4. What are the three core life-skill principles? Explain what is

meant by ‘locus of control’?

Critical thinking
The power of practice
Locus of control
Locus of control is the way people explain events in their lives, they either
accept the responsibility (internal locus) or look for excuses to explain the
things that happen to them (external locus).