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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. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Networks
Meaningful manner
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

2. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Strategies
Practical

3. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Knowledge base
Analytic
Self regulated learners
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

4. People must process information to make it...
Extrinsic feedback
Attention
Useful
Processed speed

5. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Processed speed
Limited
Attention
External direction

6. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Networks
Feedback
Sensory memory
Meaningful manner

7. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Intrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Practical
Analytic

8. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Extrinsic feedback
Analytic
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed

9. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Sensory memory
Intrinsic feedback

10. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Lomg-term memory
System
Successfully complete a task
Selective attention

11. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Strategies
Short-term memory
Networks
System

12. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Limited
Sensory memory
Useful
Extrinsic feedback

13. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Practical
Meaningful manner
Self regulated learners
Selective attention

14. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Lomg-term memory
Analytic
Processed speed

15. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Processed speed
Attention span
Strategies
Extrinsic feedback

16. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
System
Sensory memory
Meaningful manner
Creative

17. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

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

19. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Knowledge base
Decision making
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Networks

20. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
Selective attention
Lomg-term memory
Knowledge base

21. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
System
Lomg-term memory
Self regulated learners
External direction

22. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Analytic
Extrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner

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

24. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
External direction
Short-term memory

25. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Self regulated learners
Attention
Decision making
Attention span

26. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
System
Selective attention
Successfully complete a task
Feedback

27. Information moves through a...
Networks
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback
System