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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
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Intrinsic feedback

2. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
External direction
Intrinsic feedback
Creative

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

4. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Self regulated learners
Selective attention
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback

5. Information moves through a...
Decision making
System
Intrinsic feedback
Strategies

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

7. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Successfully complete a task
Intrinsic feedback
Practical

8. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Analytic

9. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Successfully complete a task
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
External direction

10. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Intrinsic feedback

11. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Self regulated learners
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Analytic
Networks

12. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Short-term memory
Decision making
Intrinsic feedback

13. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Self regulated learners
Useful
Analytic
Selective attention

14. 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.
Short-term memory
Knowledge base

15. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Networks
Sensory memory
Self regulated learners

16. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback
Attention span
Feedback

17. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Limited
External direction

18. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Strategies

19. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Networks
Selective attention
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Sensory memory

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

21. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Selective attention
Decision making
Feedback
Limited

22. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Useful
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Feedback

23. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
System
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

24. People must process information to make it...
Intrinsic feedback
Feedback
Decision making
Useful

25. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention span
Attention
Intrinsic feedback
Sensory memory

26. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Attention
Limited
System

27. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback
Attention span
Feedback