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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. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Attention
Selective attention

2. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Strategies
Decision making
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

3. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Meaningful manner
Intrinsic feedback
Creative
Attention span

4. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Intrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
System

5. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Strategies
Practical
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base

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

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

8. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Selective attention
Attention span
System
Decision making

9. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Limited
Attention
Analytic
Knowledge base

10. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Analytic
Successfully complete a task
Strategies
Selective attention

11. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Creative
Limited
Self regulated learners
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

12. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Practical

13. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Practical
Meaningful manner
Analytic
Extrinsic feedback

14. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Processed speed
Short-term memory
Useful

15. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Analytic
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Self regulated learners

16. Information moves through a...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Sensory memory
Feedback
System

17. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Creative
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
External direction
Decision making

18. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Creative
Attention
Limited
Sensory memory

19. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention
Processed speed
Creative

20. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
System
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Successfully complete a task

21. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Lomg-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Useful
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

22. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
Decision making
Attention
Useful

23. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Strategies
Self regulated learners
Decision making

24. People must process information to make it...
Meaningful manner
Useful
Lomg-term memory
Practical

25. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Attention
Meaningful manner
Limited

26. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Self regulated learners
Networks
Extrinsic feedback
Decision making

27. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Sensory memory
Feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use