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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. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Self regulated learners
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory

2. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Successfully complete a task
Knowledge base
Useful
Self regulated learners

3. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback
Selective attention
Attention span

4. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Extrinsic feedback

5. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Sensory memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making

6. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Analytic
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner

7. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Decision making
Attention
Lomg-term memory

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

9. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Processed speed
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative

10. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Creative
Feedback
Sensory memory
Knowledge base

11. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Processed speed
Creative
Limited
Analytic

12. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Analytic
Meaningful manner
Networks
Self regulated learners

13. Information moves through a...
Extrinsic feedback
Processed speed
Useful
System

14. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Lomg-term memory
Attention span
Feedback

15. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Successfully complete a task
System
Decision making
Practical

16. People must process information to make it...
Analytic
Attention span
Limited
Useful

17. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Decision making
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

18. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Self regulated learners
Attention span
Analytic

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

20. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Intrinsic feedback

21. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Self regulated learners
Sensory memory
Successfully complete a task
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

22. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
External direction
Useful
Networks
Intrinsic feedback

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

24. The most significant adolescent ability
Intrinsic feedback
Attention span
Processed speed
External direction

25. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
System
Successfully complete a task
External direction
Limited

26. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Attention
Successfully complete a task
Feedback

27. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Feedback
Useful
Successfully complete a task