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Information Processing Vocab

Subject : 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. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt






2. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.






3. Information moves through a...






4. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost






5. The skills required to do well on standarized test






6. Metacognition requires the ability to...






7. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal






8. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.






9. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information






10. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas






11. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...






12. People must process information to make it...






13. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...






14. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?






15. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas






16. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal






17. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.






18. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others






19. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.






20. The most significant adolescent ability






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


22. People have what type of capacity to process information?






23. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated






24. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...






25. Length of time you can attend to stimulus






26. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...






27. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...