e-LEARNING & DIGITAL SCIENCES

REFLECTIONS ON COGNITIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY With the emergence of technological devices and tools such as television, the telephone, computers and their increasingly widespread use in social life, the 1950s witnessed the psychologists’ tough work on categorizing the way the human brain works as a similar tool to computer processing system which was a highly popular analogy at that time. This is claimed by many to be an effort by cognitive psychologists to keep up with the changing and rising technology trend of the decade. Cognitive scientists believed that the human brain was marvelously efficient in solving problems and thinking critically. They, hence, put forward the theory of Information Processing Model that included three prominent functions such as sensory memory that assists people to get the information around via bodily senses, working memory that supports people in managing and storing a huge amount of information through mental work, and long-ter...