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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. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Selective attention
Analytic
Strategies

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

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3. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Extrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

4. The most significant adolescent ability
Networks
Strategies
Processed speed
Limited

5. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Attention
External direction
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Successfully complete a task

6. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Strategies
Knowledge base
External direction
Practical

7. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Short-term memory
Successfully complete a task
Intrinsic feedback
Decision making

8. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
External direction
Strategies
Attention

9. Information moves through a...
Intrinsic feedback
Networks
System
Processed speed

10. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base
Analytic

11. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Sensory memory
Knowledge base
Intrinsic feedback
Useful

12. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Sensory memory
Strategies
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

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

14. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Decision making
Selective attention
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Extrinsic feedback

15. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Networks
Practical
Attention

16. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Networks
Feedback
Strategies
Limited

17. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Attention span
Analytic

18. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Extrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Analytic

19. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Decision making
Strategies
Successfully complete a task
Networks

20. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Selective attention
Decision making
External direction
Attention span

21. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Knowledge base
Limited
Short-term memory

22. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
Lomg-term memory
Strategies
Meaningful manner

23. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Analytic
Feedback
Selective attention
Useful

24. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Networks
Knowledge base
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative

25. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Limited
Meaningful manner
Knowledge base
Creative

26. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Strategies
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
External direction

27. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Processed speed
Analytic
Successfully complete a task