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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. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Attention
Networks
Analytic

2. The most significant adolescent ability
Extrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Meaningful manner
Processed speed

3. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
System
Sensory memory
Short-term memory

4. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Strategies

5. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Selective attention

6. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Strategies
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
External direction

7. People must process information to make it...
Short-term memory
Selective attention
Useful
Extrinsic feedback

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

9. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Strategies
Practical

10. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Decision making
Useful
Self regulated learners

11. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Knowledge base
Analytic
Creative
Attention span

12. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Knowledge base
Short-term memory
Self regulated learners
Meaningful manner

13. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Feedback
Lomg-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback

14. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Practical
Knowledge base
Selective attention
System

15. Information moves through a...
System
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Analytic

16. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Processed speed
Limited
Practical
Networks

17. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Attention span
Strategies
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

18. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Strategies
Decision making
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention

19. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention
Meaningful manner

20. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Self regulated learners
Intrinsic feedback
Limited
Meaningful manner

21. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Sensory memory
Knowledge base

22. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Short-term memory

23. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners
System
Useful

24. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Self regulated learners
Creative
Lomg-term memory
Extrinsic feedback

25. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
System
Useful
Meaningful manner
Attention

26. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Attention span
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Meaningful manner

27. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Strategies
Decision making
External direction
Limited