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1 lut 2024 · Information Processing Theory explains human thinking as a series of steps similar to how computers process information, including receiving input, interpreting sensory information, organizing data, forming mental representations, retrieving info from memory, making decisions, and giving output.
These interdisciplinary advances from outside of psychology provided the conceptual and methodological tools for what is often called the cognitive revolution but is more accurately described as the information-processing revolution.
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2 lip 2012 · The psychology of science is a developing field that uses the methods, data, and theory of psychology to better understand the practice of science. In recent years, psychology has come increasingly to examine implicit as well as explicit processes in decision making and thought.
When interacting with a computer or any technological device, a user has specific goals and subgoals in his or her mind. This chapter aims to survey methods used to study human information processing and summarize the major findings and the theoretical frameworks developed to explain them.
Overview of Computer Analogy. The computer analogy is based on the comparison between human cognition (how we think) and how a computer works. It is fundamental to the cognitive approach, because it underpins the idea that our minds function like a complex, multi-layered information processor.
Computer models are software simulations of internal mental processes that are created in collaboration with computer scientists. Theoretical and computer models are used by cognitive psychologists to study mental processes.
