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Information Processing Vocab

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Answer 27 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Linguistic - Logical/ Mathematical - musical - visual/spatail - bodily - kinesthetic - interperonal - intrapersonal - naturalist - spiritualist - existential
Short-term memory
Sensory memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Strategies

2. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Useful
Processed speed
Intrinsic feedback

3. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Attention
Decision making
Practical
Attention span

4. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Successfully complete a task
External direction
Networks
Creative

5. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Practical
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Meaningful manner
Intrinsic feedback

6. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Analytic
Meaningful manner
Attention span
Processed speed

7. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
External direction
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback
Attention

8. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
External direction
Creative
Attention
Strategies

9. Information moves through a...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Sensory memory
Processed speed
System

10. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Meaningful manner
System
Decision making
Knowledge base

11. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Limited
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base

12. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Feedback
Networks
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

13. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Creative
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention
Feedback

14. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Decision making
System
Networks

15. The most significant adolescent ability
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Self regulated learners
Processed speed
Practical

16. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
External direction
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Lomg-term memory

17. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Processed speed
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

18. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Selective attention
Extrinsic feedback
Strategies
Meaningful manner

19. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Feedback
Short-term memory
Analytic
Decision making

20. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Selective attention
Limited
Self regulated learners
Lomg-term memory

21. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Successfully complete a task

22. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Selective attention
Limited
Short-term memory
Attention

23. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention span
Knowledge base
Short-term memory

24. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Practical
Self regulated learners
Selective attention
Creative

25. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
External direction
Networks
Attention span
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

26. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
System
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Useful

27. People must process information to make it...
Lomg-term memory
Self regulated learners
Useful
Selective attention

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