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The Information Processing Theory

The information-processing theory is associated with the development of high-speed computers in the 1950s. Researchers—most notably Herbert Simon and his colleagues—demonstrated that computers could be used to simulate human intelligence. This development led to the realization that computer-oriented information-processing models could provide new insight into how the human mind receives, stores, retrieves, and uses information. The information-processing theory was one of several developments that ended the decades-long dominance of behaviorism in American psychology. It focused on innate mental capacities, rather than on conditioned, externally observable behavior. By enabling experimental psychologists to test theories about complex mental processes through computer simulation, information-processing models helped reestablish internal thought processes as a legitimate area of scientific inquiry.

The information processing system works in quite the similar way of the computer. The external stimulus comes into the first component of the memory system -- the sensory register. Without extra reinforcement, the information received by sensory register will exist in memory only for a couple of seconds. As soon as outside input is received by the senses, the mind starts processing it according to our experiences and mental state, namely the initial processing or perception. The perceived information is transferred to the second memory component -- short-term memory, which, with a limited capacity, can hold information for only about thirty seconds. After rehearsal and coding, the maintained information is transferred to long-term memory. Once information is stored in long-term memory, it can last for quite a long time, even for a lifetime although we may lose the ability recall the information. Theorists usually divide long-term memory into three parts: episodic memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory.

References
Hetherington & Parke, (1999).Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, 5th ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill
Lindsay, Peter H. (1977).Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology. San
Diego: Academic Press.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~foreman/itec800/finalprojects/annie
/infoprocessingmodel.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/information-processing-theory.html

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