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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. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Successfully complete a task
Attention
Networks
Practical

2. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Feedback
Knowledge base
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Decision making

3. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Networks
Processed speed
Attention

4. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Successfully complete a task
Knowledge base
Limited

5. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Attention span
Sensory memory
Extrinsic feedback
Knowledge base

6. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Knowledge base
Successfully complete a task
Sensory memory
Intrinsic feedback

7. People must process information to make it...
Attention span
Useful
Decision making
Self regulated learners

8. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Lomg-term memory
Sensory memory

9. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
External direction
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

10. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Sensory memory
Practical
Self regulated learners

11. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Limited
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Self regulated learners
Creative

12. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Self regulated learners
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Processed speed

13. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory
System

14. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Limited
External direction
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory

15. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Strategies
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Analytic
Meaningful manner

16. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
System
Lomg-term memory
Limited

17. _______ 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
Sensory memory
Self regulated learners
System

18. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Intrinsic feedback
Attention span
Attention
Useful

19. Information moves through a...
System
Selective attention
Analytic
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

20. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Feedback
Intrinsic feedback
External direction
Practical

21. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Self regulated learners
Selective attention
Knowledge base

22. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Networks
Feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Strategies

23. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Successfully complete a task
Extrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Creative

24. The most significant adolescent ability
Decision making
Practical
Processed speed
Knowledge base

25. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Limited
Attention span
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Lomg-term memory

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

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27. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Sensory memory
Attention
External direction