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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 yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
Decision making

2. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Lomg-term memory
Feedback
Short-term memory

3. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Creative
Practical
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making

4. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Lomg-term memory
Attention span
Selective attention
Decision making

5. _______ 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
Meaningful manner
System
Self regulated learners

6. People must process information to make it...
Creative
Selective attention
Feedback
Useful

7. Information moves through a...
Extrinsic feedback
Selective attention
Sensory memory
System

8. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Meaningful manner
Attention
Networks
Strategies

9. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Analytic
Creative
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

10. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Attention
Short-term memory
Analytic

11. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Practical
Strategies
Short-term memory
Networks

12. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Useful
Practical

13. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Creative
Selective attention
Intrinsic feedback
Short-term memory

14. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
Useful

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

16. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
External direction
Extrinsic feedback

17. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Attention
Short-term memory
Useful
Analytic

18. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Useful
Decision making
Limited

19. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Practical
Meaningful manner
Selective attention

20. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Networks
Analytic
Selective attention
Attention span

21. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Meaningful manner
Limited
Feedback
Selective attention

22. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
External direction
Practical
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

23. The most significant adolescent ability
Attention span
Processed speed
Feedback
Self regulated learners

24. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Intrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Analytic

25. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Successfully complete a task
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Strategies

26. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Lomg-term memory
External direction

27. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Networks
Sensory memory
Successfully complete a task
Short-term memory