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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. _______ 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
Networks
Analytic
Practical

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

3. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
External direction
Networks
Knowledge base

4. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Attention span
Selective attention
Analytic
Useful

5. People must process information to make it...
System
Analytic
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Useful

6. People have what type of capacity to process information?
External direction
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
Limited

7. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Networks
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Knowledge base
Intrinsic feedback

8. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Analytic
Lomg-term memory

9. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Sensory memory
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory

10. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Decision making
Meaningful manner

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

12. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Short-term memory
Strategies
External direction
Practical

13. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Useful
Meaningful manner
External direction
Attention span

14. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
Networks
Practical
Strategies

15. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Strategies
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Feedback

16. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Self regulated learners
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

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

18. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Intrinsic feedback
Knowledge base
Useful

19. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Limited
Extrinsic feedback
Networks
System

20. Information moves through a...
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Useful
System
Intrinsic feedback

21. 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.

22. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Short-term memory
Decision making
Intrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory

23. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Practical
Processed speed
Analytic
Meaningful manner

24. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Selective attention
Knowledge base
Meaningful manner
External direction

25. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Short-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

26. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Successfully complete a task
Knowledge base
Selective attention
Intrinsic feedback

27. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
System
Practical
Creative
Sensory memory