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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 are better at understanding what is required to...
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Successfully complete a task
Self regulated learners
Lomg-term memory

2. Long term memories are laid down in patterns called...
Networks
System
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Attention

3. Feedback from an external force such as a coach - team mate or the crowd.
Analytic
Meaningful manner
Self regulated learners
Extrinsic feedback

4. _______ set their own goals - are aware of their present state of knowledge and where they want to be - and are internally motivated
System
Self regulated learners
Networks
Processed speed

5. The ability to size up situations and do what is needed to adapt
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback
Extrinsic feedback
Practical

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

7. Students who are not self-regulated (just want it) need more...
External direction
Limited
Attention
Meaningful manner

8. Metacognition requires the ability to...
Successfully complete a task
Meaningful manner
Attention span
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

9. Adolescents have superior ability in these areas
Selective attention
Feedback
Successfully complete a task
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

10. Various concepts are connected to each other in a...
Intrinsic feedback
Meaningful manner
Attention span
Successfully complete a task

11. The skills required to do well on standarized test
System
Successfully complete a task
Analytic
Self regulated learners

12. Information moves through a...
System
Practical
Limited
Lomg-term memory

13. Making sense of appropriate information - making the appropriate decision and preparing the necessary action.
Meaningful manner
Practical
Intrinsic feedback
Decision making

14. Length of time you can attend to stimulus
Attention span
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Limited
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences

15. Info that is processed through some type of rehearsal
Knowledge base
Attention span
Useful
Lomg-term memory

16. This strength of one's own plays an important role in determining how one processes information
Limited
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Knowledge base
Decision making

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

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18. People have what type of capacity to process information?
Meaningful manner
Attention
Limited
Useful

19. Some behaviors are so well learned that they require very little...
Analytic
Decision making
Attention
reflect on your own knowledge and understand what must be done to successfully learn.

20. People must process information to make it...
Useful
Analytic
Networks
Self regulated learners

21. If attended to - the information enters into the working memory - still a limited capacity - 30 seconds without rehearsal
Knowledge base
Analytic
Processed speed
Short-term memory

22. The ability to use one's experience to formulate new ideas
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Short-term memory
Creative
Attention

23. The most significant adolescent ability
Selective attention
Successfully complete a task
Processed speed
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use

24. Gives information on the effectiveness of a response or action.
Feedback
Attention span
External direction
Successfully complete a task

25. Extent to which a person can choose a certain stimulus over others
Lomg-term memory
Sensory memory
Selective attention
Attention span

26. What do people use to solve problems and process information meaningfully?
Strategies
Meaningful manner
Decision making
Analytic

27. Feedback from yourself - feeling how the action went.
Analytic
Gardner's 10 types of intelligences
Attention - Processed speed - Memory - Authencity - Strategy use
Intrinsic feedback