COMPUTER ANALOGY

Question 1

What was the cognitive revolution and when was it?

Answer 1

• Late 1960s - 1970s
• Researchers moved research towards the ideas of information processing
• The idea that memory resembles information processing by a computer

Question 2

What is the computer analogy?

Answer 2

Input —> process —> output

Encoding —> storage —> retrieval

Question 3

What does the computer analogy suggest?

Answer 3

That the human brain works like a computer:

• Information is imported through our environment (in the form of our 5 senses)
• Then it is processed (STM or working memory)
• Then it outputs information (behaviour)
• It can also store information on a hard drive (LTM)