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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Cognitive Information Processing 1

Driscoll, M. (2005). Psychology of Learning for Instruction (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. [pp. 71-77]
With the birth of computers, concepts came with behaviorism, interpreted such that  stimuli became inputs and behavior became outputs. The process between an input and output is considered as information processing, cognitive information processing (CIP).

Learning occurs when an information from an environment is processed and stored in memory and output as a learning capability.
Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), suggested multi stage theory of memory which consists of three steps of information processing system, as information goes through sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory.
Sensory memory is when the information is received by the sensors and processed to be delivered to working memory.
Working memory is the stage when the information is held briefly to be sent to long term memory. Things to be held here are limited and the duration is also limited.
Long term memory is the permanent storage for the information.
While learning, the information attracts the learner’s attention by visual, auditory etc, and gets into the sensory memory. From here, it is transferred to the working memory and is coded  conceptually by attaching a meaning.

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