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Information Processing Vocab
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 27 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Short-term memory
Strategies
External direction
Creative
2. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Successfully complete a task
Networks
Attention
3. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Sensory memory
Networks
Extrinsic feedback
System
4. Information moves through a...
Networks
System
Sensory memory
Attention
5. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Limited
Practical
Self regulated learners
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
6. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Intrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Analytic
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
7. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Attention
Intrinsic feedback
Processed speed
Meaningful manner
8. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention
Sensory memory
9. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Selective attention
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Useful
10. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
External direction
Lomg-term memory
Attention span
Decision making
11. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Networks
Processed speed
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
12. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Selective attention
Sensory memory
Practical
Intrinsic feedback
13. People must process information to make it...
Intrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Creative
Useful
14. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Short-term memory
Networks
Intrinsic feedback
Limited
15. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Networks
Knowledge base
16. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Successfully complete a task
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Decision making
Extrinsic feedback
17. The most significant adolescent ability
Decision making
Processed speed
Intrinsic feedback
Feedback
18. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
System
Creative
Attention span
19. Linguistic - Logical/ Mathematical - musical - visual/spatail - bodily - kinesthetic - interperonal - intrapersonal - naturalist - spiritualist - existential
20. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Practical
Short-term memory
Knowledge base
Creative
21. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Intrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Sensory memory
22. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Extrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
23. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Limited
Strategies
Attention
Processed speed
24. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Useful
Limited
Selective attention
25. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
External direction
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Strategies
Feedback
26. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Networks
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed
Practical
27. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Strategies
Networks
Attention
Attention span