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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. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Extrinsic feedback
Intrinsic feedback
Practical
Useful

2. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
System

3. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Extrinsic feedback

4. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Intrinsic feedback
Useful
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

5. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention span
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Lomg-term memory

6. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Decision making
Attention
Extrinsic feedback

7. People must process information to make it...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Knowledge base
Useful
Strategies

8. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Limited
Self regulated learners
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention

9. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Useful
External direction
Attention span
Attention

10. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Limited
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Creative

11. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Limited
Short-term memory
Attention span
Processed speed

12. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Lomg-term memory
Feedback
Attention
Selective attention

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

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

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15. Information moves through a...
Attention
System
Networks
Lomg-term memory

16. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Lomg-term memory
Strategies
Short-term memory
External direction

17. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Limited
Lomg-term memory
Meaningful manner
Short-term memory

18. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
External direction
Networks
Practical
Self regulated learners

19. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Useful
Meaningful manner
Successfully complete a task
Analytic

20. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Creative
Extrinsic feedback

21. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
External direction

22. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Analytic
Feedback
Decision making
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

23. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Sensory memory
Selective attention

24. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Useful
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

25. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
System
Short-term memory
Attention

26. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Strategies
Analytic
Limited
Creative

27. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Sensory memory
Extrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative