Answer Options:
High IQ and good communication skills.
Perseverance and persistence.
Ability to memorize and high IQ.
Financial support and good health.
Answer: Perseverance and persistence.
Question: After adjusting for age, the death rate in Youngstown is approximately 2x that of Oldenville. Because we standardized based on age, we think that the difference in death rates between the two cities from violent crimes is due to something other than differences in the age structure of their populations.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Assume you are taking the timed exam during a period when I am available by phone (“on call”) and you experience a serious internet problem or need a question clarified. What is your best course of action?
Answer Options:
Call me immediately, BEFORE exiting the exam.
Panic.
Report it to me via e-mail, a day or so after you exit the exam.
Withdraw from the course.
Answer: Call me immediately, BEFORE exiting the exam.
Question: A test question that asks you to infer the answer from what is presented in a text passage is a(n) ______ question.
Answer Options:
“author and you”
“think and search”
“right there”
“on my own”
Answer: “think and search”
Question: When you read, your brain uses
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memory and implicit processes only.
attention and visual processes only.
attention, judgment, memory, and visual processes.
auditory and attention processes only.
Answer: attention, judgment, memory, and visual processes.
Question: Which of the following phrases best captures the process of critical reading?
Answer Options:
Spending adequate time reading the text
Listing facts in the text
Identifying the main topic of the text
Engaging with the text
Answer: Engaging with the text
Question: If Rutgers experiences another cyberattack or other disaster affecting campus network access, you should:
Answer Options:
Find off-campus access to the internet.
Follow the procedures Canvas has on its website for alternate login that bypasses the Rutgers CAS if available.
Contact me (i.e., email at my non-RU email address if you have a question).
All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: Your best friend had taken the same course in a previous semester. Since she has already completed the course, you submit some of her papers as your own. Since you are best friends this is okay.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: When you “Intensify” a Learning Pattern in an assignment, you
Answer Options:
need to use less effort than you would need to “Forge” a learning pattern.
are using only that Learning Pattern.
bring it to the exact same level as the other three Learning Patterns.
are in phase 5 of the metacognition process.
Answer: are using only that Learning Pattern.
Question: When writer and artist Diana Randolph bucked her family background and decided to take the risk of attending college in another state, she was exhibiting this Learning Pattern.
Answer Options:
Sequence
Precision
Technical Reasoning
Confluence
Answer: Confluence
Question: Education in the early twentieth century focused primarily on
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learning proper English.
questioning authority.
developing critical thinking skills.
memorizing facts.
Answer: memorizing facts.
Question: Your coworker likes to take a challenging project and solve it by herself. She is most closely associated with Use First of the _________ Pattern.
Answer Options:
Sequence
Precision
Technical Reasoning
Confluence
Answer: Technical Reasoning
Question: In the digital age we have
Answer Options:
less time to absorb and make sense of new information.
fewer ways to learn than we did before the digital age.
mostly become smarter and deeper thinkers than were older and slower.
great difficulty accessing quality information.
Answer: less time to absorb and make sense of new information.