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