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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. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
System
Successfully complete a task

2. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Feedback
Lomg-term memory
Sensory memory

3. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Analytic
Short-term memory

4. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task
Knowledge base
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

5. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Practical
System
Networks

6. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
Sensory memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

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

8. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Lomg-term memory
Networks
Strategies
Feedback

9. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Limited
Selective attention
Extrinsic feedback

10. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Sensory memory
Self regulated learners
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
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11. Information moves through a...
System
Creative
Sensory memory
Processed speed

12. People must process information to make it...
Sensory memory
Useful
External direction
Processed speed

13. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Selective attention
Meaningful manner
Practical

14. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Practical
Creative
Decision making
Lomg-term memory

15. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Attention span
Limited
Extrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task

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

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17. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Self regulated learners
Useful
Sensory memory
Limited

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

19. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Selective attention
Short-term memory
Networks
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

20. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Networks
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

21. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Attention span
Strategies
Sensory memory
Intrinsic feedback

22. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Knowledge base
Creative
Self regulated learners
Sensory memory

23. The most significant adolescent ability
Lomg-term memory
Self regulated learners
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Processed speed

24. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Meaningful manner
External direction
Practical
Short-term memory

25. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
System
Intrinsic feedback
Limited

26. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Selective attention
Knowledge base
Short-term memory
Creative

27. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Networks
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Feedback