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Information Processing Vocab

Instructions:

Answer 27 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Information moves through a...
Feedback
System
Meaningful manner
Short-term memory

2. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Practical
Creative
Attention
Knowledge base

3. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Self regulated learners
Attention
Feedback
Short-term memory

4. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Networks
Decision making
Selective attention
Self regulated learners

5. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Processed speed
External direction

6. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Useful
Decision making
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

7. The most significant adolescent ability
Attention span
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention

8. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Successfully complete a task
Selective attention
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback

9. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Successfully complete a task
Sensory memory
Processed speed

10. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Processed speed
Practical
Extrinsic feedback

11. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Decision making
Short-term memory
Successfully complete a task
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

12. People must process information to make it...
System
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Useful
Intrinsic feedback

13. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Selective attention
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Knowledge base

14. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Knowledge base
Strategies
Meaningful manner
Sensory memory

15. Linguistic - Logical/ Mathematical - musical - visual/spatail - bodily - kinesthetic - interperonal - intrapersonal - naturalist - spiritualist - existential

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16. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Analytic
Attention
Decision making
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

17. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Creative
Successfully complete a task

18. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Decision making
Attention
Creative
Lomg-term memory

19. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Self regulated learners
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Practical
Limited

20. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
External direction
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Extrinsic feedback
Attention span

21. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Practical
Lomg-term memory
Attention

22. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Attention
Limited
Practical
Useful

23. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Intrinsic feedback
Limited
Practical
Strategies

24. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Strategies
Self regulated learners
Successfully complete a task
Intrinsic feedback

25. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Networks
Knowledge base

26. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Creative
Meaningful manner
Attention span

27. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
System
Sensory memory
Short-term memory