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