Portfolio Project

1. Charles Shelton
General Studies
I am an outgoing, positive,
optimistic, and socially
responsible man.

2. 1. Module 2 Discussion Board: Metacognition
A. I've learned to challenge some things when it comes to studying.
B. I learned to quit procrastinating.
C. I’ve learned to develop new and better study habits.
2. Module 3 Discussion: How People Learn
A. I've learned basic study principals on how to learn and how to use those principles on how to
study.
B. I’ve learned that focusing on spelling the word is called shallow level of process.
C. I’ve learned that deeper processing leads to better recall.
3. In this activity you will explore the creation of a support system. Afterward, you may decide to start
networking more, using OPB (Other People's Brains) to help you achieve your greatest goals and dreams.
A. I’ve learn that I can talk to my teacher if I need assistance in class.
B. I learned that I can get help with a tutor.
C. I can ask a fellow student or classmate for help.

3. Chapter 7 Journal Entry 28
• Write about a time when you passed a personal integrity test. Tell about an experience when you were greatly tempted to
abandon one of your important values. Describe how you decided to “do the right thing” instead of giving in to the
temptation.
• 1. I learned that I am Honest.
• 2. I learned that doing the right thing is rewarding.
• 3. I learned that keeping a commitment is important.
Chapter 6 Journal Entry 23
1. IG: In what area of your life are you off course?
ME: My credit Is Bad.
2. IG: Would you say more about that? I have a low credit score with some negative items on my credit report.
ME: I had some evictions on my credit report, I would never pay credit cards on time, I was young and dumb
when it came to money.
3.. IG: What self-defeating thought patterns of yours may have contributed to this situation?
ME: I thought that credit didn't matter.
Chapter 5 Journal Entry 17
1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is: (Examples might be a lack of time to
study or a teacher you don’t understand.)
A. A teacher I don't understand.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is:
B.My teacher
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is: (examples might be shyness or a tendency
to procrastinate.)
C. I procrastinate quite often.

4. • The week that I like best;
• Memory and Information.pdf
• It was said that in order to learn something you must first attend to
the information.
• I have a short attention span.
• I have learned the duration of sensory attention is only a few seconds.
• Working memory is sometimes referred to short-term memory.
• Working memory has a duration of only 20 to 30 seconds.
• Long term memory holds information forever.
• The problem is that we do not encode information well and then we
forget it.

5. • List three lessons that you will carry with you from this course into
your next semesters.
• I will ask for help.
• I will not procrastinate.
• I will change my bad study habits.

6. • List your Self-assessment scores from the beginning and end of the
course from the Self-Assessment, and write at least three sentences
about what you have learned about yourself from this course.
• I don’t know how to get the scores.

7. • Please give us information you found from your Grayson Link
assignment or TypeFocus. Please include at least four things you
learned about your future career interests or the career itself that you
did not know before.
• There is nothing to list that I did not know already.

8. FAMILY
FRIENDS
HAPPINESS