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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. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Successfully complete a task
Selective attention

2. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Lomg-term memory
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

3. The most significant adolescent ability
Feedback
Useful
Processed speed
External direction

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

5. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
External direction
Meaningful manner
Useful
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

6. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Attention
Knowledge base
Extrinsic feedback

7. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
External direction
Sensory memory
Attention span
Limited

8. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Intrinsic feedback
Networks
Processed speed
Knowledge base

9. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
Creative
Strategies
Successfully complete a task

10. Information moves through a...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
System
Knowledge base
Analytic

11. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Networks
Selective attention
Short-term memory
Feedback

12. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Limited
Attention span
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

13. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Networks
Intrinsic feedback
Strategies
Feedback

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

15. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Short-term memory
System
Creative
Self regulated learners

16. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Practical
Useful
Intrinsic feedback

17. People must process information to make it...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Useful
Feedback

18. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Analytic
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Creative

19. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Creative
Successfully complete a task
Feedback
Analytic

20. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Attention
Intrinsic feedback
Sensory memory
Lomg-term memory

21. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Practical
Feedback
Intrinsic feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

22. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Successfully complete a task
Decision making
Attention
Self regulated learners

23. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Short-term memory
Attention span
Meaningful manner
Networks

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

25. Metacognition requires the ability to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Feedback
Processed speed
Selective attention

26. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Analytic
Selective attention
System

27. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Creative
Knowledge base
Useful
Intrinsic feedback