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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. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention
Attention span
Practical
Limited

2. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Sensory memory
Decision making
Useful
Extrinsic feedback

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

4. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Feedback
Successfully complete a task
Creative
Analytic

5. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
Intrinsic feedback
Processed speed

6. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Decision making
Meaningful manner
Sensory memory
Attention

7. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Strategies
Processed speed
Feedback
Practical

8. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Decision making
Processed speed

9. People must process information to make it...
Processed speed
Useful
Feedback
Knowledge base

10. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Analytic
Decision making
Networks

11. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Feedback
Creative
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

12. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Attention
Strategies
External direction

13. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Intrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
Knowledge base
Useful

14. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Selective attention
Analytic
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Creative

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

16. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Networks
Extrinsic feedback
Knowledge base

17. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Successfully complete a task
Feedback
Creative
Intrinsic feedback

18. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Practical
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Intrinsic feedback

19. Information moves through a...
Self regulated learners
System
Knowledge base
Extrinsic feedback

20. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Decision making
External direction
Processed speed

21. The most significant adolescent ability
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Processed speed

22. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory
Short-term memory

23. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Meaningful manner
Attention span
Creative

24. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
System
Lomg-term memory
Processed speed
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

25. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Feedback
Extrinsic feedback
Processed speed

26. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Decision making
External direction

27. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Lomg-term memory
Short-term memory
Processed speed
Analytic