Is of Identity Test

1. A statement is either true or false.
2. Mules are stubborn.
3. A pig is a dirty animal.
4. God is everywhere.
5. A boy who won’t fight is a coward.
6. Snake is an ugly word.
7. College graduates earn more than other people.
8. The word dog is a four footed animal.
9. A person who kills another person is a murder.
10. Women are mothers.
11. A boy who never lies is good.
12. Teachers think they’re smarter than other people.
13. Neighbors are nosey.
14. Pretty girls are stuck up.
15. Seeing is believing.
16. Adam and Eve were the first human beings.
17. It takes two to make a bargain.
18. He that believeth not shall be damned.
19. The good die young.
20. There is one basic cause for all effects.
21. The wildest colts make the best horses.
22. Humans can talk.
23. No one wants to die.
24. Barking dogs don’t bite,
25. Death is not forever.
26. Americans are not communists.
27. Dreams often foretell our lives.
28. Everything comes if only a man will wait.
29. Anything believed by most of the people must be true.
30. What goes up must come down.
31. Water flows downhill.
32. A wool skirt is warm.
33. A circle is round.
34. Iron is strong.
35. An orange is not green.
36. A leaf is green.
37. A knife is sharp.
38. A pencil is round.
39. Feathers are soft.
40. The sky is blue.
41. Needles are sharp.
42. One sits in a chair.
43. A pitcher holds water.
44. A piece of iron is heavy.
45. A house is either frame or brick.
46. A drunkard is a sinner.
47. Ministers are good men.
48. Everything that is true can be proved.
49. Big boys are bullies.
50. It is never all right to kill,
51. Children should always obey their parents.
52. Children are born bad.
53. Plants grow in soil.
54. Questions have no answers.
55. No one gets by with anything bad without getting caught.
56. Telling dirty jokes is bad.
57. A good soldier is a patriot.
58. Women movie stars are beautiful.
59. People are just naturally mean.
60. Cats hate dogs.
61. Flowers are pretty.
62. Health is Wealth.
63. Love is holy.
64. Money is evil.
65. The smartest people are the most successful
66. Select ONE of the following five statements which you feel is most characteristic of you:
a. I like almost everyone.
b. I am very careful in choosing my friends.
c. I like more people than I dislike.
d. I make no friends until they prove worthy of me.
e, I like and dislike about the same number of people.

TFY Chapter Four -- Inferences: What Follows

Glossary
Chapter 4
Description versus Interpretation	Pure description provides factual details that convey an accurate objective depiction of a subject. Interpretation makes inferences and judgments about the subject.
Evidence	Evidence is a sign or proof that something is true or that it has or had existence.
Generalization	A generalization is a statement derived from the study of a number of cases that summarizes something characteristic about these cases.
Infer	To use imagination and reasoning to fill in missing facts. To connect the dots.
Justify	To justify a claim means to defend and support a claim.
Obvious	The obvious is something that is unconcealed and easy to see. Yet we may neglect to pay close attention to the obvious because it is so familiar.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.

How to Manage Time and Set Priorities

How to Manage Time and Set Priorities
Key Point
Good time management means defining priorities and scheduling activities.

What Are the 3 Rules for Effective Time Management?

   1. Don't create impossible situations.
   2. Define priorities.
   3. Avoid distractions and lack of focus.

Don't Create Impossible Situations.

Don't get trapped into doing too much. Don't try to work full time and take a full load. Don't take too many lab classes. Use time to create success, not failure. Be realistic about school. For most classes, plan to study 2 hours for every 1 hour of class.

Make time your friend
not your enemy.

Identify your first priority classes and do whatever it takes to succeed. Drop second priority classes or reduce work hours if necessary.

Define Your Priorities Using the 3-List Method.

Plan your work,
then work your plan
All time management begins with planning. Use lists to set priorities, plan activities and measure progress. One approach is the 3-list method.

List #1 - The weekly calendar.
Create a weekly calendar. Make it your basic time budgeting guide. List your courses, work, study time, recreation, meals, TV, relaxation, etc.

Plan to study first priority classes when you work best. Be flexible, adapt your schedule to changing needs. Keep your schedule handy and refer to it often. If it doesn't work, change it.

List #2 - The daily "Things to Do".
Write down all the things that you want to do today. Note homework due or tests or subjects you want to emphasize. Include shopping and personal calls, etc.

This list is a reminder. Use it to set daily priorities and to reduce decision-making and worry. If time is tight, move items to your long-term list.

Rewrite this list each morning. Use visualization to help you focus on what to do. This list is also a measure of your day-to-day success. Check off items as you finish them and praise yourself for each accomplishment.

List #3 - Goals and other things.
This can be one or two lists, a monthly list and or a long-term list. Put down your goals and things you have to do. What do you want to accomplish over the next month or year? What do you need to buy?

Use this list to keep track of all your commitments. If you're worried about something, put it on this list. The purpose of this list is to develop long-term goals and to free your mind to concentrate on today.

Avoid Distractions and Lack of Focus.

Time is precious. Yet many people waste time by getting stuck in one or more of the following habits.

Procrastination - putting off important jobs.

Crises management - being overwhelmed by the current crisis. No time for routine matters.

Switching and floundering - lack of concentration and focus on one job.

Television, telephones and friends - these are all ways of avoiding work.

Emotional blocks - boredom, daydreaming, stress, guilt, anger and frustration reduce concentration.

Sickness - getting sick and blowing your schedule.

In all of these cases, the first step is to recognize the problem and resolve to improve. Use priority lists to focus attention. Try positive self-talk. To avoid distractions, find a quiet place to study, the library or a study hall. Get an answering machine.

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Cognitive Information Processing Model

Memory Vocabulary

•Chapter Vocabulary

•memory

•acronym

•key word

•mnemonic

•long-term memory

•acrostic

•memory cue

•rote learning

•short-term memory

•sensory memory

•chunking

C3 -- Facts Glossary

Glossary
Chapter 3
Absolute	An absolute is something that is perfect, complete, always true, something never to be doubted or questioned.
Certain	Certain is a characteristic of something fixed, assured, or inevitable.
Fact	A fact is something proven to be true, real, existing or to have existed.
Fiction	Fiction is an idea or story based on imagination rather than reality.
Objective/subjective	Objective is to be impartial, free of bias or prejudice. Subjective is to be swayed by bias or prejudice rather than facts and evidence.
Plausibility	This standard weighs the reasonability of a event or explanation.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Probability	This standard estimates the likelihood that an event occurred or will occur.
Reliability	This is another standard: that the data was confirmed to be fact by a reputable independent source. Reliability also means that the confirmation proved dependable over time.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.
Verifiability	This is a standard for determining facts; that they can be tested and confirmed to be either true and/or in existence or past existence or not.
Verify	To verify is to test and confirm the truth, accuracy, or existence of something.

NEW WORDS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

NEW WORDS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a
deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was
responsible.

CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce
the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean
hands.

CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

IDEA HAMSTERS: People who always seem to have their idea
generator running.

MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the
couch potato.

PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly
in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to
see what's going on.

SITCOMs: (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage)
What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them
stops working to stay home with the kids.

STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in
divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.

STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed
out and whiny.

SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive
use.

TOURISTS: People who take training classes just to get a
vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in
the class; the rest were just tourists."

TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed
material.

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from
one's workplace.

ALPHA GEEK: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient
person in an office or work group.

CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well,
first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or
your salsa.

Story A Questions

Story A Questions

Questions on Story A


1 .The scientist had never been seasick before.

2.The purpose of the voyage was primariiy pleasure and sight-seeing.


3.The story lists various incidents which follow the killing of a bird.

4.After the scientist shot the albatross the troubles happened.

5.No scientist’s name was mentioned in the story.

6.The scientist was surprised to see a white albatross in the vicinity.
7.The scientist was not from a university or college. 8.The scientist asked the captain for permission to kill the bird.

9.It took the crew members less than five minutes to reel in the seventeen hundred feet of cable,

1O.A lost gear made it necessary for the ship to return to the west coast.

11 .Fortunately, the net cables never fouled up.

12.A ship was chartered by a scientist.

13.The net was ripped in the bottom of the sea.

14.The cook was fired because of his objection to the killing of the bird.

15 .Larson broke a leg.

1 6.After the bird was killed the mishaps occurred.

17.The white albatross was sighted near Australia.

1 8.When an albatross was sighted flying near the ship the scientist asked permission to kill it.

19.The net was not damaged.

20.The troubles happened after the albatross was killed.

21 .The scientist was less influenced by the old sea superstition than were the members of the crew.

22.The ship, propelled by a motor, was in difficulty after the gear broke.
23 .Permission to kill the bird was given by the captain.

24. Seventeen hundred feet of cable were reeled in by hand.

25 .The bird that was killed was an albatross.

26.The sailors were not disturbed when the scientist violated the old sea superstition.

27.The person who fell down a hatch ladder was a man named Larson.

28.Larson broke one of the ribs of the ship.

29.The scientist did not want the bird as a specimen for the university museum.
30.The naturalist did not charter the ship.

31 .The scientist did not asked the crew for permission to kill the albatross.

32.The scientist attention was called to the old sea superstition that bad luck follows the killing of the white albatross.

33.The naturalist did not ask permission to kill the bird on order to secure it as a museum specimen.

34.The scientist expected to see a white albatross in that vicinity.

35 .The scientist was influenced by the warning of the crew.

36.The cook did not leave his job.

37.The captain broke one of his ribs.

38 .The bird was killed against the captains orders.

3 9.The crew members were only to frighten the scientist by protesting against the killing of the bird.

40.A lost gear was not the reason the ship landed.

41 .The crew protested against the killing of the bird.

42.Jackie Larson became seasick before the albatross was killed.

43.The scientist’s aide was Jackie Larson.

44.The bird was not killed.

45.The bird was killed by scientist.

46.The cook helped reel in the seventeen hundred feet of cable.

47.While the crew men were undoubtedly upset by the scientist’s action the cook was the only man to actually leave his job.

48.A scientist fell down a hatch ladder.

Story A

Story A

STORY A

(1)A certain west coast university scientist chartered a ship for exploration purposes.

(2) When a large white bird was sighted the scientist asked permission to kill it.

(3)He stated that white albatrosses are usually found only off the cost of Australia.

(4)He wanted the bird as a specimen for the university museum.
(5)The crew protested against the killing of the bird, calling the scientist’s attention to the old sea superstition that bad luck followed the killing of a white albatross.
(6)Nevertheless the captain granted permission to kill the bird and the bird was killed.

(7)These mishaps happened after the bird was killed:

(8)The net cables fouled up three times.

(9)The net caught on the bottom and was ripped to shreds.

(1O)The shaft on the main winch snapped and it took the crew members five hours to reel in by hand 1700 feet of cable.

(1 1)A rib was broken when Jackie Larson, a scientific aide, fell down a hatch ladder.

(12)The scientist became seasick for the first time in his life.

(13)Lost gear forced the ship to head for land.

(14)The cook left his job.

Fact Or Opinion Answers

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Fact or Opinion?

Fact or Opinion?

1. Mr. Jones has two sons and one daughter.

Fact

Opinion

2. That picture is by Rembrandt.

Fact

Opinion

3. Her house is really beautiful.

Fact

Opinion

4. My friend has six fingers on one hand.

Fact

Opinion

5. That boy is the nicest person in the school.

Fact

Opinion

6. The group will stop in Denver overnight.

Fact

Opinion

7. L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz".

Fact

Opinion

8. I will finish before the rest of the class.

Fact

Opinion

9. The Bulls are better than the Knicks.

Fact

Opinion

10. Nine plus one equals ten.

Fact

Opinion

Answers

Frames of Language

Box Quiz

Decode the following boxes:   (Hint:  the answer to #20 is "downtown")

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TFY Glossary C2 -- Word Precision

Glossary
Chapter 2
Critical reading	Critical reading is analytical and evaluative reading based on accurate neutral comprehension of the material.
Definition	A concise explanation of the meaning of a word that shows us its boundaries.
Principal claim and reasons	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Term and class	Term refers to the word defined and class refers to the largest family to which the term is related.
Thinking	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.
Word	Word is a sound or group of sounds that communicate meaning. These sounds are also translatable into written symbols.
Word concept	A concept is a abstract idea or principle conveyed in a word.
Word connotation	Word connotation refers to the additional shades of meaning and emotional associations that a word may carry.
Glossary