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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. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Useful
Selective attention
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

2. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Creative
Practical

3. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Lomg-term memory
Selective attention
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Intrinsic feedback

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

5. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Practical
System
Meaningful manner
Analytic

6. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Selective attention
Extrinsic feedback
Lomg-term memory
Feedback

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

8. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Lomg-term memory
Meaningful manner
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

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

10. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Intrinsic feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Feedback
Attention

11. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Successfully complete a task
System
Creative

12. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Self regulated learners
Lomg-term memory
Strategies

13. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Creative
Short-term memory
Feedback
Useful

14. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Successfully complete a task
Attention span
Sensory memory
Networks

15. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Limited
External direction
Analytic
Attention span

16. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Sensory memory
System
Knowledge base
Successfully complete a task

17. Information moves through a...
Sensory memory
Attention span
System
Short-term memory

18. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Attention
Sensory memory
System
Selective attention

19. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Decision making
Selective attention
Knowledge base
Analytic

20. The most significant adolescent ability
Lomg-term memory
Decision making
Processed speed
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

21. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Attention span
Sensory memory
Limited
Feedback

22. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Short-term memory
Strategies
Networks
Useful

23. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention
Feedback
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

24. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Lomg-term memory
System
External direction
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

25. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Meaningful manner
Useful
Extrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

26. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
Extrinsic feedback
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Feedback
External direction

27. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Extrinsic feedback
Networks
Practical
Sensory memory