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