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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. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Meaningful manner
Feedback

2. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Networks
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

3. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Meaningful manner
Selective attention
Decision making
Useful

4. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Intrinsic feedback

5. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Analytic
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Attention
Selective attention

6. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Strategies
Feedback
Processed speed

7. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

8. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Self regulated learners
Processed speed
Strategies
System

9. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Decision making
Knowledge base
Strategies
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

10. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Attention
Limited
Feedback
Sensory memory

11. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Networks
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Lomg-term memory

12. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Attention
Intrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Short-term memory

13. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Strategies
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
Self regulated learners

14. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Selective attention
Knowledge base
External direction

15. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Creative
Extrinsic feedback
Decision making
Strategies

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

17. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Intrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback

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

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19. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Networks
Attention
Sensory memory

20. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Knowledge base
Networks
Meaningful manner

21. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
Processed speed

22. Information moves through a...
Networks
Limited
Useful
System

23. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base
Decision making
Meaningful manner

24. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Useful
Selective attention
Networks
Analytic

25. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Successfully complete a task
Creative
Strategies
Analytic

26. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
System
Networks
Practical

27. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Networks
Processed speed
Practical
Attention span