WORD-BASED COGNITIVE
STUDY SKILLS
An Interactive Tutoring System to Help 11th and 12th grade English Students
Develop Word-Based Cognitive Study Skills
Developed by Abigail Driver for CEPD 4101
How did you do on the quiz?
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More than likely, you did much better on this quiz than you did on the previous quiz that you took at the beginning of the section on creating summaries.
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By creating a summary you used words to review the important points in the passage from "A Worn Path," and it helped you remember the information for this quiz.
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Now that you have mastered the working wonders with words study skill of creating effective summaries, you are ready to begin study skill #2--note-taking!
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Click this button to begin cognitive study skill #2
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FUN FACT!
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Our brains create things call schemas.
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Schemas are patterns of thoughts about a specific person, thing, place, smell, etc. Our brains can create schemas about anything we come into contact with or imagine!
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Just as when a dog bites your hand you develop a schema that says dogs are scary, perhaps you tried using summaries to study in the past and found that they did not work well for you. Perhaps you were not using an effective method. It is quite possible that your brain created a schema that taught you that summaries are not a good study method for you.
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Hopefully through this activity you have learned that this schema developed by your brain is not necessarily true!
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Check out this website to learn more about schemas and how they impact your thinking patterns and beliefs about the world around you and your personal studying habits.
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