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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. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Attention
Decision making
Knowledge base
Short-term memory

2. _______ 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
Limited
Creative
Selective attention

3. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Successfully complete a task
Creative
Meaningful manner

4. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Practical
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task
Networks

5. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Selective attention
System
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

6. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Creative
External direction
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Limited

7. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Selective attention
Practical
Networks

8. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task
External direction

9. Information moves through a...
Feedback
Intrinsic feedback
Strategies
System

10. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Feedback
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Limited

11. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
Networks

12. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Attention span
External direction
System
Intrinsic feedback

13. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Meaningful manner
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
System

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

15. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Knowledge base
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed

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

17. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Successfully complete a task
Short-term memory
Sensory memory

18. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
Knowledge base
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Selective attention

19. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Self regulated learners
Limited
Practical
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

20. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed
Short-term memory

21. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Lomg-term memory
Successfully complete a task
Analytic
Self regulated learners

22. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
External direction
Extrinsic feedback
Attention

23. People must process information to make it...
Networks
Decision making
Useful
Sensory memory

24. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
External direction
System
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

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

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

27. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
External direction
Selective attention
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences