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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. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Short-term memory
Decision making
Strategies
Knowledge base

2. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners
Meaningful manner
Extrinsic feedback

3. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Meaningful manner
Analytic
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

4. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Practical
Attention span
Intrinsic feedback
Attention

5. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Networks
Sensory memory
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners

6. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Creative
Feedback

7. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Practical
Strategies
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners

8. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Extrinsic feedback
Networks
Sensory memory
Analytic

9. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Processed speed
Decision making
External direction
Lomg-term memory

10. The most significant adolescent ability
Creative
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Processed speed

11. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Extrinsic feedback
Limited
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Intrinsic feedback

12. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Successfully complete a task
Analytic
Attention span

13. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Useful
Self regulated learners
Networks

14. Information moves through a...
System
Useful
External direction
Self regulated learners

15. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task

16. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Attention
Processed speed
Limited
Practical

17. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Meaningful manner
Self regulated learners
Creative
Networks

18. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Useful
Intrinsic feedback
Selective attention
Analytic

19. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Extrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Useful
Strategies

20. People must process information to make it...
Feedback
Attention
Analytic
Useful

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

22. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Successfully complete a task
Feedback
Networks
Strategies

23. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Strategies
Extrinsic feedback
Decision making

24. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Meaningful manner
External direction
Useful

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

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26. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Sensory memory
Practical
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

27. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Processed speed
Feedback
System
Intrinsic feedback