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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. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Useful
Attention span
Self regulated learners

2. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention
External direction
Decision making

3. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Feedback
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback

4. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Self regulated learners
Limited
Feedback

5. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Sensory memory
Creative
Limited
Feedback

6. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Feedback
Sensory memory
Useful
Attention span

7. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
External direction
Knowledge base
Limited
Useful

8. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Processed speed
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

9. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Selective attention
Intrinsic feedback
Practical
Sensory memory

10. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
External direction
Attention

11. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Creative
Extrinsic feedback
Practical
Lomg-term memory

12. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Analytic
Attention

13. Information moves through a...
Extrinsic feedback
System
Networks
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

14. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Meaningful manner
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Networks
Attention

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

16. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Knowledge base
External direction
System
Intrinsic feedback

17. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Knowledge base
Successfully complete a task
Strategies
Short-term memory

18. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Short-term memory
Meaningful manner
Successfully complete a task

19. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Attention span
Meaningful manner
Creative
Practical

20. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Attention span
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback

21. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Meaningful manner
Strategies
External direction
Practical

22. The most significant adolescent ability
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Processed speed
Analytic

23. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Attention
Short-term memory

24. People must process information to make it...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Useful
Processed speed
Attention span

25. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners
Successfully complete a task

26. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Decision making
Selective attention
Knowledge base
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

27. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Intrinsic feedback
Feedback
Strategies
Analytic