GEN 201 Week 2 Homework

Throughout the week you have learned about productive organization and time management skills and effective skills, habits, and solutions for student success. In this assignment, you apply what you have learned.

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Complete the Week 2 Homework.

Note: You have two attempts available to complete the assignment. The highest scored attempt will be recorded, so take your time and review the week’s materials before attempting this assignment. Your instructor must transfer grades manually to the gradebook. Don’t worry, this might happen after your due date.

Which best describes the goal time management?

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To enjoy life more fully

To have more free time

To spend more time with family and friends

To maximize personal and professional productivity

Maximing personal productivity is the goal of

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time management.

completing your degree.

adulthood.

living out a life philosophy.

When considering the goals of time management, maximizing productivity means

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achieving your personal and professional goals.

keeping yourself busy on a daily basis.

balancing school obligations.

being happy with who you are.

Which of the following viewpoints toward time management are essential to academic success?

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Recognizing that time is more critical for personal vs. academic success

Understanding that academic responsibilities are your only time management priority

Recognizing that academic responsibilities are in addition to other responsibilities

Knowing that attention to the most important responsibilities will lead to academic success

Which of the following reasons is the best explanation for why time management is important to academic success?

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Knowing that instructors are flexible and most assignments may be submitted at any time

Understanding that meeting academic responsibilities requires planning and taking into consideration and responsibilities

Being confident of your academic ability

Being aware that school is your highest priority and other aspects of your life may be neglected for awhile

Eddy is a college freshman majoring in biology. He is also on the soccer team. It is only October, but he is already feeling overwhelmed by everything he has to do. He wishes he could spend time hanging out with his new friends. To become a more effective time manager, and to become happier as a student, Eddy must

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live with a high level of anxiety for the next four years.

be motivated to change some of his behaviors.

accept lower grades so that he can maintain his current schedule of activities.

give up his friends and just concentrate on school.

In the academic environment, the person responsible for the success of your time is

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your professors.

you.

your family.

your friends.

Time management can be defined as the practice of organizing one’s behaviors to assure maximum personal and professional productivity. What role does personal motivation play in implementing this meaning?

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While organization plays a role in achieving maximum personal and professional productivity, personal motivation does not.

Personal motivation is needed to achieve maximum personal and professional productivity.

This definition requires that individuals must have organizational skills to achieve maximum personal and productivity.

The definition implies that to be an effective time manager, you might have to change your behavior which requires personal motivation.

Which of the following would be the best definition of a goal?

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An activity you want to participate in

An assignment you must complete in the near future

The desired result you want to have at some point in the future

A task you want to accomplish at a set point in time

An activity that can be classified as a goal, means that the activity requires

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a long time frame.

no specific timeframe.

a short time frame.

a specific time frame.

Which of the following is true about short-term goals?

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Are usually accomplished in one day to six months

Typically involve many mini goals

Are accomplished over a longer period of time

Requires patience, planning, and dedication

Self-Discipline is defined as

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the belief in one’s self and the ability to accomplish tasks.

confidence in one’s worth and abilities.

the ability to follow one’s dreams.

the desire to do what you think is right despite temptations to not do it.

Setting goals in college will

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help you focus your efforts to be successful.

result in improving interpersonal relationships.

help you become more organized in your efforts.

provide the incentive to be successful.

Long-term goals can be defined as

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goals that provide experience needed and motivation required to meet short-term goals.

goals that are accomplished in 1 day to six months.

something you want to accomplish in the far future.

goals that compliment your short-term goals.

Steps taken toward the accomplishment of long-term goals are sometimes called

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short-term goals.

strategic goals.

step-by-step goals.

process driven goals.