"Essential Study Skills provides in-depth coverage of study skills with ample room for practice and application through a step-by-step, supportive approach. The Fifth Edition includes the contemporary working memory model, helping you take control of your learning potential. Online exercises and case studies from the student website also provide extra practice and application of lessons learned. Through models, exercises, case studies, and readings, Essential Study Skills shows you that academic success is a product of skills and behaviors you can acquire, customize, and effectively apply. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Includes index.

Unit 1.Understanding How You Process and Learn -- Chapter 1. Discovering and Using Your Learning Styles -- Three Cognitive Learning Styles -- Linear and Global Learners -- Additional Learning Preferences -- Multiple Intelligences -- Chapter 2. Processing Information into Your Memory System -- Information Processing Model -- Essential Strategies to Process Information -- Working Memory Model -- Two Kinds of Information to Process -- Feedback Model -- Twelve Memory Principles -- Unit 2. Preparing Yourself for Optimal Learning -- Chapter 3. Managing Your Time -- Balancing Your Life -- Term Schedules -- Weekly Schedules -- Essential Strategies for Scheduling Study Blocks -- Daily Schedules -- Task Schedules -- Applying Time Management -- Chapter 4. Setting Goals -- Kinds of Goals -- Four-Step Approach for Writing Goals -- Motivation -- Essential Strategies to Build and Maintain Motivation -- Combining Goal Setting and Time-Management Skills for Studying -- Chapter 5. Increasing Concentration; Decreasing Stress and Procrastination -- Increasing Concentration -- Decreasing Stress -- Essential Strategies for Managing Stress -- Decreasing Procrastination -- Essential Strategies to Combat Procrastination -- Chapter 6. Boosting Your Memory and Preparing for Tests -- Combating the Process of Forgetting -- Using Mnemonics to Boost Your Memory -- Preparing for Tests -- Essential Strategies for Test Preparation -- Dealing with Sources of Test Anxiety Before the Test -- Unit 3. Developing Effective Textbook Reading Strategies -- Chapter 7. Reading College Textbooks -- Active Reading -- Essential Strategies for Textbook Reading -- Using Four Levels of Reading -- Surveying to Get an Overview -- Formulating Questions -- Using the SQ4R Reading System -- Reading Different Kinds of Textbooks -- Chapter 8. Strengthening Comprehension -- Reading College Textbooks -- Essential Strategies to Improve Comprehension -- Increasing Comprehension Through Vocabulary Skills -- Increasing Comprehension Paragraph by Paragraph -- Increasing Comprehension Using Organizational Patterns -- Annotating Your Textbooks -- Essential Strategies to Study Annotations -- Unit 4. Using Effective Notetaking Techniques -- Chapter 9. Taking Textbook Notes -- Selecting a Textbook Notetaking System -- Essential Strategies for Textbook Notetaking -- Cornell Notetaking System -- Combining Cornell Notetaking and SQ4R -- Index Card Notetaking System -- Essential Strategies for Studying Index Card Notes -- Two-Column and Three-Column Notetaking System -- Formal Outline Notetaking System -- Chapter 10. Listening and Taking Lecture Notes -- Listening Skills -- Essential Strategies to Strengthen Listening Skills -- Using Listening Skills in Lectures -- Essential Strategies to Prepare for Lectures -- Selecting a Notetaking System to Use -- Organizing Information -- Adjusting to the Rate of Speech -- Working with Your Notes -- Chapter 11. Using Visual Notetaking Systems -- Tailoring Your Approach to Learning -- Creating Visual Mappings -- Creating Hierarchies -- Essential Strategies for Studying Visual Mappings and Hierarchies -- Creating Comparison Charts -- Essential Strategies to Study Comparison Charts -- Creating Other Visual Notes -- Unit 5. Strengthening Your Test-Taking Skills -- Chapter 12. Developing Strategies for Objective Tests -- Performing Well on Objective Tests -- Essential Strategies for Taking Objective Tests -- Answering True-False Questions -- Answering Multiple-Choice Questions -- Answering Matching Questions -- Answering on Matching Tests -- Using Educated Guessing -- Taking Computerized Tests -- Essential Strategies for Taking Computerized Tests -- Chapter 13. Developing Strategies for Recall, Math, and Essay Tests -- Answering Recall Questions -- Taking Math Tests -- Essential Strategies for Math Tests -- Answering Essay Questions -- Essential Strategies for Preparing for Essay Tests -- End-of-the-Term Culminating Options -- Appendix A. Chapter Profile Materials -- Appendix B. Useful Forms -- Appendix C. Standard Learning Options -- Appendix D. Psychology Chapter: Health, Stress, and Coping.