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