Learners in a class of Social Science try to capture the main ideas of the…

Study skills are the specific techniques learners are taught to organise, condense and later recall information — for example note-making, summarising, and outlining — and they are distinct from the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and from broad cognitive processes such as memory and reasoning.

In this scenario, learners do more than just hear the lecture: they identify which ideas matter, condense them, and record them as organised points for later review. This selecting-condensing-recording activity is exactly what note-making (a core study skill) consists of, so the skill being described is a study skill.

Contrast with the other options:

• Receiving and comprehending the spoken lecture is the listening component here, but it stops at comprehension — it does not, by itself, explain the further step of condensing ideas into organised points.

• Putting words on paper is the writing component here, but the scenario is about which ideas get selected and how they are structured, not the mechanics of forming letters and sentences.

• Perception, memory and reasoning are broad mental processes at work in almost any classroom task; they are too general to name this specific, teachable classroom technique.

Because the scenario describes the taught technique of selecting and condensing lecture content into organised points, the skill is a study skill.