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