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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. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Feedback
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

2. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
External direction
Attention
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Strategies

3. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Practical
Meaningful manner
External direction
Feedback

4. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Sensory memory
Attention
Processed speed

5. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Selective attention
Sensory memory
Practical
Feedback

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

7. Information moves through a...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
System
Attention
Analytic

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

9. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Practical
Lomg-term memory
Intrinsic feedback
Strategies

10. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Successfully complete a task
Decision making
Meaningful manner

11. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention
Self regulated learners
Short-term memory
Intrinsic feedback

12. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Practical
Decision making
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed

13. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Processed speed
Decision making
Successfully complete a task
Lomg-term memory

14. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Decision making
Selective attention
Meaningful manner
Knowledge base

15. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Attention
Limited
Meaningful manner
Creative

16. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Feedback
Sensory memory
Knowledge base
Selective attention

17. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Processed speed
Attention
Limited

18. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
System
Decision making
Attention span
Knowledge base

19. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Attention span
Analytic
Sensory memory

20. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Creative
Meaningful manner
Networks
Limited

21. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Meaningful manner
Knowledge base

22. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
External direction
Self regulated learners
Attention span
Selective attention

23. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Short-term memory
Attention span
Decision making

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

25. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Extrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Analytic
Feedback

26. The most significant adolescent ability
Practical
Processed speed
Limited
Useful

27. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Short-term memory
Limited
Knowledge base
Practical