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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. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Selective attention
External direction
Decision making
Networks

2. Information moves through a...
Selective attention
External direction
Meaningful manner
System

3. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Networks
Processed speed

4. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
System
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Useful

5. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Extrinsic feedback
Limited
Practical
Networks

6. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Short-term memory
Analytic
Knowledge base

7. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Self regulated learners
Limited
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Processed speed

8. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Attention span
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

9. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Feedback
Attention
Attention span
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

10. People must process information to make it...
Analytic
Processed speed
Meaningful manner
Useful

11. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Meaningful manner
Knowledge base
Creative

12. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Meaningful manner
Decision making
Feedback
Practical

13. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Strategies
Short-term memory
Attention span
Successfully complete a task

14. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Short-term memory
Decision making
Selective attention

15. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Sensory memory
Networks

16. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Short-term memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
External direction
Sensory memory

17. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Feedback
Successfully complete a task
Practical
Short-term memory

18. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Limited
Short-term memory
Strategies
Creative

19. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Attention
Decision making
Networks
Intrinsic feedback

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

21. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Knowledge base
Feedback
Sensory memory

22. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Strategies
Limited
Meaningful manner

23. The most significant adolescent ability
Meaningful manner
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Processed speed
Limited

24. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Successfully complete a task
Attention span
Strategies
Networks

25. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Meaningful manner
Processed speed
Feedback

26. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
System
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Intrinsic feedback
Practical

27. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
System
External direction
Meaningful manner
Selective attention