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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. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Attention span
Selective attention
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

2. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Selective attention
Practical
Processed speed
Attention span

3. 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.
External direction
Self regulated learners
Useful

4. The most significant adolescent ability
Feedback
Practical
Processed speed
Strategies

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

6. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Attention span
Creative
Practical
Strategies

7. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Creative
Self regulated learners
Attention span

8. People must process information to make it...
Practical
Analytic
Attention
Useful

9. The skills required to do well on standarized test
External direction
Useful
Analytic
Intrinsic feedback

10. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Self regulated learners
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

11. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Successfully complete a task
Strategies
Feedback
Sensory memory

12. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Analytic
Attention span
Lomg-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

13. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Useful
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Decision making

14. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Creative
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

15. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
System
Feedback
Successfully complete a task
Strategies

16. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Knowledge base
Selective attention
Feedback
Sensory memory

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

18. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Useful
Processed speed
Limited

19. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Feedback

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

21. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Meaningful manner
Attention span
System
Useful

22. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Networks
Meaningful manner
Short-term memory
Self regulated learners

23. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Limited
Analytic
Intrinsic feedback

24. People have what type of capacity to process information?
External direction
Limited
Sensory memory
Selective attention

25. Information moves through a...
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Strategies
System

26. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Meaningful manner
Selective attention
Attention span

27. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
External direction
Attention