Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

analogies, cognition, cognitive approach, cognitive processes, cognitive revolution, computers, decision making, foundation, human learning, human-computer analogy, information, Information Processing Theory, learning, method, problems, processing ability, psychology, researcher, technological age

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception | Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Information Processing Theory is a cognitive approach designed to understand human learning. Several perspectives of this theory emerged from the cognitive revolution in psychology beginning in the 1950s. The invention of the technological age of computers brought with it an innovative way of understanding how information is processed in humans. This lead researcher to draw analogies between the processing ability of humans and computers. The human-computer analogy developed from the foundation that as computers are able to process information so too can humans in a very similar method. Both encompasses ‘cognitive’ processes such as learning or obtaining information, solving problems, making decisions and recalling or retrieving information.

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