Study Skills and Adolescent Development

Flashcards on study skills, listening, reading, comprehension, concentration, memory, time management, study methods, note-taking, mind mapping, external assessments, and changes from adolescence to adulthood.

Listening

To listen carefully with your ears and eyes, make notes, ask questions, and repeat what the speaker has said in your own words to check understanding.

Study Skills

Abilities to listen, read, understand, concentrate, remember, organize learning material, and manage studying time.

Listening

To listen carefully with your ears and eyes, make notes, ask questions, and repeat what the speaker has said in your own words to check understanding.

Study Skills

Abilities to listen, read, understand, concentrate, remember, organize learning material, and manage studying time.

Concentration

The ability to focus and pay attention.

Distraction

Something that causes you to stop thinking and paying attention to someone or something.

Reading

A habit that helps you find information.

Scanning

Moving your eyes quickly over the reading material until you find the specific information you're looking for.

Skimming

Quickly looking at the headings and main ideas to get a general idea of what is going on in the chapter, article, or magazine.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding what you read involves reading slowly, possibly more than once, making notes, underlining, highlighting, looking up new words, and reading in small sections.

Concentration Techniques

Find a quiet place, switch off your cell phone and radio, put up a sign asking not to be disturbed, take deep breaths, change subjects every one or two hours, take regular breaks, study in a group, and reward yourself.

Memory Training

Make summaries, repeat summaries, visualize, learn actively, use fingers to count points, read out loud, tell someone else, use acronyms, and make mock tests.

Time Wasters

Playing computer games, excessive phone use, disorganization, and interruptions.

Time Management Tips

Planning study times, being realistic about what you can achieve, drawing up a schedule, using a diary, balancing study with rest and fun, taking regular breaks, and allocating more time to weaker subjects.

Study Methods

A way to study, learn, and remember.

Similarity

A quality that makes one person or thing like another.

Compare

To see how ideas, things, or people are similar.

Contrast

To see how ideas, things, or people are different.

Note-Taking Techniques

Listen carefully, know what you want to learn, use abbreviations and symbols, write short sentences, keywords, or mind maps, and group ideas together.

Mind Map

A diagram to help you study in a visual way to show your understanding of a topic and to sort out and arrange information.

How to Make a Mind Map

Write the main idea in the middle, write headings around the middle, group similar ideas together, draw lines to connect headings, and use drawings, pictures, or symbols.

Select Concepts and Content

Choosing the most important concepts and ideas to study by looking at headings, subheadings, and keywords.

Construct an Assignment or Assessment

Understand the topic, plan your task, write an introduction, write the body, and end with a short conclusion that links with your introduction.

Compare (in essay writing)

Looking at two or more things or people and identifying how they are the same.

Contrast (in essay writing)

Comparing two or more people or things to show how they are different.

Annual Study Plan

A timetable for all your school subjects and activities for the whole year; includes tests, exams, tasks, events, holidays.

Adolescence

The time when a child develops into an adult, usually between 10 and 19 years old.

Hormones

Natural substances produced in the body that influence the way a body grows or develops.

Physical change

Changes in your body.

Emotional change

Changes in your thinking and feelings.

Social changes

Changes in your relationship with others, family, friends, and people in the workplace.

Peer pressure

A feeling that you must do the same things as other people your age and social group in order to be liked and be respected by them.