EDUC 701 Quiz Information Processing Theory
∑ Due Jul 24 at 11:59pm

∑ Points 50

∑ Questions 20

∑ Time Limit 120 Minutes

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Question 1
2.5 / 2.5 pts What does the abbreviation STM stand for?

Standard-timed memory

Short-term memory
Small-trained memory
Sporadically-timed memory Good work
Question 2
2.5 / 2.5 pts Advanced organizers are broad statements presented at the outset of lessons that help to connect new materials with prior learning.
True
False Good work
Question 3
2.5 / 2.5 pts Cognitive load refers to the demands placed on the information processing system and in particular on working memory.
True
False Good work
Question 4

2.5 / 2.5 pts Propositions are the basic units of knowledge stored in short-term memory.
long-term memory.
encoded memory.
working memory. Good work
Question 5
2.5 / 2.5 pts In order to remember, incoming sensory information must go through this sequence: Storage, encoding, retrieval.
Retrieval, encoding, storage.
Encoding, storage, retrieval.
Storage, forgetting, retrieval. Good work
Question 6

2.5 / 2.5 pts Miller proposed that short-term memory can hold one pieces of information.
around seven pieces of information.
around ten pieces of information.
around twelve pieces of information. Good work
Question 7
2.5 / 2.5 pts Which Gestalt principle explains why we tend to fill in incomplete patterns? Closure
Common direction
Similarity
Figure-ground Good work
Question 8

2.5 / 2.5 pts Verbal learning is best associated with this scientist.
Wertheimer
Norman
Gestalt
Ebbinghaus Good work
Question 9
2.5 / 2.5 pts Information processing is considered one single unified theory.
True
False Good work
Question 10
2.5 / 2.5 pts Learning requires attention. Teachers should always check for understanding by observing their students’ eye focus, questioning, movement of the heads, restlessness, and completed assignment.
True

False Good work
Question 11
2.5 / 2.5 pts A learning outcome that includes hitting a ball would be considered
an intellectual skill.
a cognitive strategy.
a motor skill.
a verbal skill. Good work
Question 12
2.5 / 2.5 pts The process of putting new information into the information processing system and preparing it for storage in long-term memory is called
recording.
looping.
encoding.

inputting. Good work
Question 13
2.5 / 2.5 pts The German word “Gestalt” can be translated as
shape.
psyche.
mind.
learning. Good work
Question 14
2.5 / 2.5 pts Long-term memory is limited, whereas, short-term memory is permanent.
True
False Good work
Question 15

2.5 / 2.5 pts If five basketball players are wearing the same uniform, you would group them on the court because of Closure.
Common direction.
Similarity.
Figure-ground. Good work
Question 16
2.5 / 2.5 pts Which is not a principle of Gestalt theory? Similarity
Closure
Proximity
Common distraction Good work

Question 17
2.5 / 2.5 pts Verbal learning is best described as meaningfulness of items, degree of similarity, and length of time one learns.
True
False Good work
Question 18
2.5 / 2.5 pts The two major types of knowledge are
assertive and procedural.
declarative and assertive.
assertive and interrogatory.
procedural and declarative. Good work
Question 19
2.5 / 2.5 pts Joe wants to remember a phone number he just looked up. To keep the number in his short-term memory, he repeats the number over and over. He is most likely using the strategy of

rehearsal.

attention.

mnemonic.

organization.
Good work
Question 20
2.5 / 2.5 pts The knowledge about specific events or personal experiences is
declarative.

procedural.

assertive.

interrogatory. Good work

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