Of the many alternative approaches available for understanding cognition, the one that has
dominated psychological investigation for the last decade or two is information processing …

" Information," though difficult to define precisely, refers to representations derived by a
person from environmental stimulation or from processing that influences selections among …

HA Simon expresses his thanks for receiving the American Psychological Association
citation for outstanding lifetime contribution to psychology. He describes cognitive …

First published in 1979. Basic research, at its essence, is exploration of the unknown. When
it is successful, isolated pieces of reality are deciphered and described. Most of the history of …

Intelligence tests are about one hundred years old. If you agree with Boring (1923) that
intelligence is what the intelligence tests measure, then the science of intelligence is one …

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents seven detailed views of human
information processing at the time. While no single volume can do justice to the breadth of …

Memory Articles The Three Memory Storage Systems In cognitive psychology, memory is
usually divided into three stores: the sensory, the short-term, and the long-term. The …

Learning and using a new technique always takes time. Even if the question initially seems
very straightforward, inevitably technicalities rudely intrude. Therefore before a researcher …

Cognitive psychology attempts to understand the nature of the human mind by using the
information‐processing approach. In this article, the fundamentals of the cognitive approach …

Mental processes: Studies in cognitive science. Mental processes: Studies in cognitive
science. Citation Longuet-Higgins, HC (1987). Mental processes: Studies in cognitive science …