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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. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Attention
Extrinsic feedback
Useful

2. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Limited
Lomg-term memory
Successfully complete a task
Feedback

3. People must process information to make it...
Creative
Useful
Self regulated learners
Decision making

4. Information moves through a...
System
Short-term memory
Extrinsic feedback
Knowledge base

5. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Decision making

6. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Extrinsic feedback
Decision making
Sensory memory
Analytic

7. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Successfully complete a task
Sensory memory
Meaningful manner
Selective attention

8. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
External direction
Useful
Strategies
System

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

10. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
Selective attention

11. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
External direction
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Processed speed
Decision making

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

13. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
System
Attention span

14. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Creative
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
External direction
Limited

15. _______ 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
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
System

16. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Selective attention
Analytic
Feedback
Extrinsic feedback

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

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

19. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Short-term memory
Feedback
Extrinsic feedback
Attention span

20. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Lomg-term memory
Processed speed
External direction
Extrinsic feedback

21. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Sensory memory
Selective attention
Knowledge base
Useful

22. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Short-term memory
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Intrinsic feedback

23. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Practical
Attention
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention span

24. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Practical
Networks
Creative
Self regulated learners

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

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26. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Sensory memory
Decision making
Self regulated learners

27. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Sensory memory
System
Networks
Self regulated learners