Information Processing Model

This refers to general features common to…

The rapid development of computers in the 1950s contributed to cognition becoming the dominant approach over behaviourism

Humans and computers

Computers gave cognitive psychologists the terminology needed to describe human mental processes and how ________________

This approach is a ______________ using computer terminology to explain how the mind transforms sensory information

Human thought works

Hypothetical model

It assumes information from the _________ (input) is subjected to mental processes (mediational processes) which underline _________ (output)

Environment

Behaviour

This means internal mental processes can be described from ___________ processes in an _____________

Unobservable

Objective way

Information can be _______________________ using ‘mental processes’, with results being behavioural responses

Stored, retrieved, and transformed