Information-Processing Theory

In Information-Processing Theory, which process happens first?

• retrieval

• storage

• transformation

• attention

When a student scans a book for the first time, a student is using selective focus known as

• discriminant coding

• attention

• retrieval

• elaborative rehearsal

When a teacher is helping a student make a connection between an abstract object to something else they are more familiar with in nature, the teacher is using a ---.

• mnemonic

• metacognition

• rehearsal

• concrete analogy

To be held in long-term memory, information must be

• by passed by the short-term memory

• created by a path of the sensory register

• considered meaningful

• just given.

You are trying to remember a persons name, so you repeat it over and over is called

• maintenance rehearsal

• elaborative rehearsal

• rote rehearsal

• chucking

A computer program that provides a lesson to students, and then allows the students to practice that skill is called ---. (example Lexia)

• virtual environments

• integrated learning system

• drill-and-practice

• tutorial

Knowing how and why we learn a way we do is called -----.

• metacognition

• metaphysical inference

• attention

• perceptual intervention

Understanding how you learn as a person _____________ with age.

• decreases

• increases

• stays the same

An example of chucking would be all BUT the following:

• Phone numbers

• Learning minerals in like groups

• Random list of spelling words

• Spelling list of "ish" words

Inviting a guest speaker to teach a new topic

• is too distracting

• enhances the learning experience

• should be used numerous times

• is only good for short-term memory