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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. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Limited
Attention span
Intrinsic feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

2. _______ 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
Self regulated learners
Selective attention
Strategies

3. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Extrinsic feedback
Creative
Meaningful manner
Processed speed

4. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Short-term memory
Feedback
Processed speed
Strategies

5. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Knowledge base
Decision making
System

6. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Successfully complete a task
Decision making
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

7. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Creative
Attention
Useful
Selective attention

8. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Decision making
Lomg-term memory
Networks
Attention span

9. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Knowledge base
Sensory memory
Decision making

10. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Limited
Strategies
Networks
External direction

11. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Networks
Successfully complete a task
External direction
Knowledge base

12. Information moves through a...
Strategies
Self regulated learners
Creative
System

13. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Attention span
Feedback
Sensory memory
Selective attention

14. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Self regulated learners
Analytic
Useful
Strategies

15. People must process information to make it...
Knowledge base
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Creative
Useful

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

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17. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Decision making
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Sensory memory
Meaningful manner

18. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Short-term memory
Feedback
Self regulated learners

19. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Successfully complete a task
Practical
Knowledge base
Feedback

20. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Limited
Feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Extrinsic feedback

21. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
Intrinsic feedback
Useful

22. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
Lomg-term memory
Practical
Attention span

23. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Strategies
Self regulated learners
Attention span

24. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Practical
Limited
External direction
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

25. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Practical
Extrinsic feedback
Self regulated learners
Knowledge base

26. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
System
Knowledge base
External direction
Practical

27. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
System
Attention span
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Intrinsic feedback