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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. Information moves through a...
Analytic
Strategies
System
Short-term memory

2. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Knowledge base
External direction
Intrinsic feedback

3. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Processed speed
Feedback
Short-term memory

4. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task

5. The most significant adolescent ability
Limited
Selective attention
Creative
Processed speed

6. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
System

7. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Processed speed
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Self regulated learners

8. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Processed speed

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

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10. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Limited
Useful
Creative

11. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Selective attention
Extrinsic feedback
Analytic
System

12. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Short-term memory
Strategies
Processed speed
Lomg-term memory

13. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
External direction
Meaningful manner
Knowledge base

14. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Processed speed
Sensory memory
Decision making
Attention

15. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Selective attention
Limited
Attention
Analytic

16. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Useful
Meaningful manner

17. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Creative
Self regulated learners
Intrinsic feedback

18. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Limited
Extrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Selective attention

19. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Analytic
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Selective attention
Intrinsic feedback

20. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Knowledge base
Selective attention
System
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

21. _______ 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
Self regulated learners
Sensory memory
Knowledge base

22. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
External direction
Short-term memory
Creative
Attention span

23. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners

24. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
System
Creative
Sensory memory

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

26. The skills required to do well on standarized test
External direction
Meaningful manner
Analytic
Feedback

27. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Practical
Decision making
Knowledge base
Limited