INTRODUCTION
The information processing theory approach to the study of cognitive development evolved out of the American experimental tradition in psychology. Information processing theorists proposed that like the computer, the human mind is a system that processes information through the application of logical rules and strategies. Like the computer, the mind has a limited capacity for the amount and nature of the information it can process
Objectives
General objectives
1 describe the principal on which cognitive learning theory are based.
2 use the characteristics of the memory store in our information processing system.
3 describe the cognitive process in our information processing system. Specific objectives
1 Describe the information processing model of memory.
2 Analyzes what cause people remember or forget
3 Explain what makes information meaning.
4 Describe how information processing theory helps students to learn.
Content
Information Processing Learning Theory
The Information Processing theory is based on the assumption that information comes from the outside world into sensory registers in the brain. This input consists of things perceived by our senses. People are not consciously aware of most of the things they perceive; but become aware of them only if consciously directing attention to them. When attention is directed to them, they are placed in the working memory.
George A. Miller is modifying this theory
DEFINATION
• Information processing theory focus on how people attend to environmental events encode information to be learned and relate it to knowledge in memory store it and retrieve it as needed. SHUNK 1996
• The information processing theory is defined as “Theoretical perspective that focuses on the specific ways in which people mentally think about (“process”) the information they receive” (McDevitt & Ormrod, 2004).
The four main beliefs of the