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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. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Successfully complete a task
Networks
Limited
Analytic

2. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Practical
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Self regulated learners

3. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Selective attention
Decision making
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Networks

4. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
Feedback
Knowledge base

5. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Limited
Creative
Practical
Self regulated learners

6. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
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Knowledge base
External direction
Intrinsic feedback

7. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Attention span
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External direction

8. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Useful
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Networks
Short-term memory

9. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Feedback
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
System

10. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Attention
Creative
Decision making
System

11. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Knowledge base
Self regulated learners

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

13. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Self regulated learners
Limited
Attention
Intrinsic feedback

14. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Analytic
Attention span
Processed speed
Creative

15. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention
Strategies
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

16. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Successfully complete a task
Feedback

17. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Short-term memory
Decision making
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Analytic

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

19. People must process information to make it...
Meaningful manner
Useful
Lomg-term memory
Networks

20. Information moves through a...
Decision making
System
Useful
Short-term memory

21. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
Limited
Creative
Self regulated learners

22. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Processed speed
Limited
Meaningful manner
External direction

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

24. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
External direction
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Extrinsic feedback
Intrinsic feedback

25. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Attention
Practical
Networks

26. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Sensory memory
Attention span
Self regulated learners
Successfully complete a task

27. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Attention span
Useful
Attention
Analytic