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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. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Strategies
Short-term memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Creative

2. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Self regulated learners
Short-term memory
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback

3. The most significant adolescent ability
Practical
Decision making
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

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

5. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Sensory memory

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

7. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Decision making
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
Extrinsic feedback

8. People must process information to make it...
Meaningful manner
Useful
Knowledge base
Sensory memory

9. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
System
Selective attention
Successfully complete a task

10. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Self regulated learners
Short-term memory

11. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Useful
Limited
Self regulated learners
Practical

12. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Intrinsic feedback
Networks
Practical
Lomg-term memory

13. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
Short-term memory
Limited
Self regulated learners

14. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Feedback
Attention
System
Intrinsic feedback

15. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Short-term memory
External direction
Limited
Knowledge base

16. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Knowledge base
Selective attention
System
Intrinsic feedback

17. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Self regulated learners
Successfully complete a task
Processed speed

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

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19. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Knowledge base
Strategies
Limited

20. Information moves through a...
Networks
System
Strategies
Sensory memory

21. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Selective attention
Creative
Attention

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

23. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Meaningful manner
External direction
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

24. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Self regulated learners
Attention span
Networks
Successfully complete a task

25. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

26. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Successfully complete a task
Attention span
Practical
External direction

27. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Meaningful manner
Attention span
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use