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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
Self regulated learners
Attention span
Analytic
Knowledge base

2. 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.
Analytic
Attention

3. People must process information to make it...
Strategies
Successfully complete a task
Useful
Creative

4. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Meaningful manner
Lomg-term memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
External direction

5. Brief - limited capacity - if not further processed - information is lost
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task
Meaningful manner
Sensory memory

6. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Meaningful manner
System
Useful
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

7. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Self regulated learners
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task

8. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Selective attention
Decision making
Networks
Practical

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

10. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Extrinsic feedback
Practical
System
Strategies

11. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Meaningful manner
Creative

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

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13. Information moves through a...
System
Processed speed
Decision making
Analytic

14. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Lomg-term memory
Attention span
Creative
Sensory memory

15. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Knowledge base
Extrinsic feedback
External direction
Networks

16. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Successfully complete a task
Meaningful manner
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

17. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Successfully complete a task
Attention
Attention span
Limited

18. Adolescents are better at understanding what is required to...
Extrinsic feedback
Short-term memory
Attention
Successfully complete a task

19. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Attention
Intrinsic feedback
System
Limited

20. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Useful
Knowledge base
Short-term memory

21. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Attention span
Limited
Analytic
Attention

22. The skills required to do well on standarized test
Useful
Extrinsic feedback
Processed speed
Analytic

23. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Feedback
Sensory memory
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.
Short-term memory

24. The most significant adolescent ability
Processed speed
External direction
Useful
Networks

25. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Analytic
Attention
Extrinsic feedback

26. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Short-term memory
Practical
Intrinsic feedback
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

27. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Short-term memory
Knowledge base
Selective attention
Useful