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Information Processing Vocab

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Answer 27 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Processed speed

2. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
External direction

3. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
System
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Processed speed
Short-term memory

4. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Intrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
External direction
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

5. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Self regulated learners
Decision making
Sensory memory
Networks

6. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
Successfully complete a task
Practical
Analytic

7. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Decision making
System
Sensory memory

8. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Successfully complete a task
Intrinsic feedback
External direction
Extrinsic feedback

9. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Short-term memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Intrinsic feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

10. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Useful
Creative
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback

11. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Networks
Useful
Creative

12. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
Knowledge base
Decision making
Useful

13. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
System
Meaningful manner
Analytic

14. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Processed speed
External direction
Extrinsic feedback

15. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Limited
External direction
Successfully complete a task
Short-term memory

16. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Feedback
Knowledge base
Short-term memory
Sensory memory

17. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Attention span
Knowledge base
Lomg-term memory
Strategies

18. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Feedback
Creative
Limited
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

19. Linguistic - Logical/ Mathematical - musical - visual/spatail - bodily - kinesthetic - interperonal - intrapersonal - naturalist - spiritualist - existential
Attention span
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Practical
Lomg-term memory

20. Information moves through a...
System
Practical
Useful
Lomg-term memory

21. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Successfully complete a task
Practical
Creative
Lomg-term memory

22. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Attention span
Processed speed
Meaningful manner
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

23. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Sensory memory
Knowledge base
Limited
Analytic

24. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Creative
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Networks

25. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Selective attention
Intrinsic feedback
Strategies
Knowledge base

26. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Self regulated learners
Strategies
System
Useful

27. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
System
Self regulated learners
Intrinsic feedback

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