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Life Skills Vocab
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Things that you want to accomplish in one year or less
Bad habits that keep you from peak performance
Citizenship
Short term goal
Self-critical
2. Things that you want to accomplish in over one year
Decisions
Citizenship
Self-Image
Long term goal
3. Things like active listening - that help you share feelings - thoughts - and information with others
Active Listening
Self-management
Communication Skills
Previewing
4. Expressing your ideas - reflection on you - with proper grammar and choice of words
Self Esteem
Writing
Define Success
Communication Skills
5. Part of the Golden Rule - treat others as you want to be treated
Goal Setting
Showing respect
Diplomacy
Honesty
6. Principles of good character - proper conduct - and moral judgement - expressed through personality - human relations - and professional image.
Ethics
Computer skills
Where to study
Active Listening
7. Take small bites of the information - hilight or underline key words and phrases - quiz yourself on small sections to ensure understanding
Concern
How to study
Game Plan
Where to study
8. Putting off until tomorrow what you can do today
Sensitivity
Self Esteem
Goal Setting
Procrastination
9. Something you give up in order to get something more important
Avoiding Negative actions
Trade offs
Prioritize
Skimming
10. A place that is comfortable - quiet - has everything that you need - and you are sitting up.
Where to study
How to study
Emotional Stability
Stepping-stones goals
11. The compulsion to do things perfectly
Writing
Perfectionism
How to study
Being Popular
12. Build on your strengths - practice doing whatever it is that helps you maintain a positive...
Diplomacy
Self-Image
Being Popular
Ethics
13. The identifiction of long- and short-term goals.
Being Popular
Citizenship
Self-critical
Goal Setting
14. Admired or wanted as a friend
Visualize
Avoiding Negative actions
Where to study
Being Popular
15. The best way to approach a complicated - long-term team project
Positive Action
Stepping-stones goals
Handling Peer pressure
Tone of voice
16. Do not be self critical - motivate yourself - change your vocabulary - remember you are not alone.
Self-management
Skimming
Creativity
Game Plan
17. Listening and responding with full attention to whats being said
Define Success
Active Listening
Sensitivity
Self-Image
18. Outlining what you have to say or do before you get to it
Organizing
Communication Skills
Consequences
Ethics
19. Not doing anything harmful - unsafe - or against the law
Mission Statement
Handling Peer pressure
Values and goals
Avoiding Negative actions
20. A combination of understanding - empathy - and acceptance
Showing respect
Goal Setting
Sensitivity
When to study
21. To make a list of tasks that need to be done in the order of most to least important - - if you can - do the difficult things first
Creativity
Courage
Prioritize
Sensitivity
22. An important indicator of maturity
Emotional Stability
Short term goal
Procrastination
Makig decisions
23. You need to know the basics: addition - subtraction. You should also know fractions - decimals - and percentages - also need to know how chemical and physical reactions occur in many situations
When to study
Mathematics and science
Organizing
Computer skills
24. Being an active - helpful membership in a community
Citizenship
Short term goal
Self-management
Speaking
25. The ability to be dependable - to make wise decisions - and to accept the result of your actions and decisions
Responsibility
Mathematics and science
Procrastination
Skimming
26. Something you choose or make up your mind about after thinking over all possible choices
Stepping-stones goals
Game Plan
Decisions
Being Popular
27. Speak with confidence - stand tall - use good grammar. Success is a skill.
Long term goal
Handling Peer pressure
Practice new behaviors
Prioritize
28. Put a stop to negative or _________ thoughts that can work against you.
Self-critical
Decisions
Bad habits that keep you from peak performance
Previewing
29. Reading through a book or document quickly - picking out main ideas and key points
Communication Skills
Influencing
Skimming
Showing respect
30. To be alert to what one is doing at a particular moment
Communication Skills
Perfectionism
Being in the present
Short term goal
31. An interest in other people
Where to study
Concern
Emotional Stability
Procrastination
32. Procrastination - perfectionism - lack of a game plan
Self-management
Being in the present
Concern
Bad habits that keep you from peak performance
33. The strength to stand up for what you know is right
Citizenship
Skimming
Courage
Computer skills
34. Do not depend on other people's definition of success - you must define your own
Self-Image
When to study
Define Success
Tone of voice
35. A statement that sets forth the values that an individual or institution lives by and that establishes future goals.
Mission Statement
Avoiding Negative actions
Emotional Stability
Makig decisions
36. Based on inner strength and begins with trusting your ability to reach your goals
Long term goal
Visualize
Self Esteem
Speaking
37. To see your self working where you want to - competently handling clients - and feeling at ease and happy with your situation
Visualize
Communication Skills
Courage
Emotional Stability
38. Show us how to behave and what to aim at
Values and goals
Ethics
Tone of voice
Define Success
39. Subtly skillful handling of a situation - using tact
Diplomacy
Creativity
Self-management
Self Esteem
40. Reading only the parts of a written work that outline or summarize its content
Self Esteem
Mathematics and science
Previewing
Decisions
41. Using computers to communicate - create - and other essential things of modern professionbal life
When to study
Mission Statement
Active Listening
Computer skills
42. Result of your choice
Visualize
Tone of voice
Consequences
Citizenship
43. You need to learn and practice how to speak about your ideas and plans in front of people - organize and express your thoughts - think about why would they care for your words - i.e what's in it for them?
Speaking
Sensitivity
Where to study
Trade offs
44. Getting others to do things for you by appealing to their emotions of empathy...
Organizing
Game Plan
Influencing
Trade offs
45. The ability to be truthful and fair
Honesty
Short term goal
Self Esteem
Active Listening
46. Voice that makes an impression
Citizenship
Tone of voice
Skimming
Concern
47. Identify the decision of problem - consider the alternatives - choose the best alternatives - act on the decision - evaluate the decision
Previewing
Makig decisions
Practice new behaviors
Where to study
48. The conscious act of planning your life rather than just letting things happen
When to study
Game Plan
Visualize
Being in the present
49. Not succumbing to influence from friends to do or not to do something
Stepping-stones goals
Visualize
Short term goal
Handling Peer pressure
50. A time when you feel most energetic and motivated.
Active Listening
When to study
Perfectionism
Honesty