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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. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Decision making
Meaningful manner
Attention

2. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention
Decision making
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

3. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Useful
Short-term memory
Sensory memory

4. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Limited
Processed speed
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base

5. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
External direction
Self regulated learners

6. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Lomg-term memory

7. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
Extrinsic feedback
External direction

8. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Short-term memory
Creative
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory

9. The most significant adolescent ability
Meaningful manner
Intrinsic feedback
Processed speed
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

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

11. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Feedback
Meaningful manner
Short-term memory

12. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Intrinsic feedback
Attention
Creative
Analytic

13. Information moves through a...
System
Creative
Useful
Meaningful manner

14. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Practical
Attention
Creative
Analytic

15. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Decision making
Meaningful manner
Creative
Attention span

16. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Decision making
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
Sensory memory

17. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
Meaningful manner
Processed speed
External direction

18. People must process information to make it...
Lomg-term memory
Analytic
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Useful

19. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Short-term memory
Feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Networks

20. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Attention span
Selective attention

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

22. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Processed speed
Limited
System

23. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Analytic
Limited
Practical
Useful

24. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Attention
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Selective attention

25. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Limited
Networks
Successfully complete a task

26. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Successfully complete a task
Networks
Analytic

27. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention
Strategies