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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. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Processed speed
Networks
Sensory memory
Knowledge base

2. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Decision making
Self regulated learners
Knowledge base
Creative

3. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Feedback
Extrinsic feedback
Analytic
Meaningful manner

4. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Knowledge base
Attention
Successfully complete a task
Practical

5. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Networks
System
Strategies
Intrinsic feedback

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

7. The skills required to do well on standarized test
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Meaningful manner
Analytic
System

8. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Limited
Strategies
Attention
Sensory memory

9. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Processed speed
Practical
Intrinsic feedback
Useful

10. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Analytic
Practical

11. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Decision making
Networks
Selective attention
Sensory memory

12. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Sensory memory
Analytic
Attention
Self regulated learners

13. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Practical
Intrinsic feedback
Extrinsic feedback

14. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
Limited
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Extrinsic feedback

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

16. The most significant adolescent ability
Attention
Processed speed
Self regulated learners
System

17. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Analytic
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention
Knowledge base

18. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Analytic
Strategies
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention

19. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Attention
Networks
Limited
Knowledge base

20. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Useful
Feedback
Self regulated learners
Decision making

21. People must process information to make it...
Creative
Useful
Lomg-term memory
Limited

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

23. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Limited
System
Successfully complete a task

24. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
System
Networks
Attention span
Short-term memory

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

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26. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Extrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
System
External direction

27. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
External direction
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Decision making
Networks