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Download full textElena, Tsupikova; Alexander, Tyutchenko; Larisa, Katsyuba – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The article describes the main types of mental information processing in the context of a systematic structural method. The author analyses the semantic theories of information. The author reviews the mechanisms of information processing and its qualitative properties. The article describes the mechanism of textual presupposition accommodation.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Theory, Semantics, Learning
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Direct linkBrady, Timothy F.; Konkle, Talia; Alvarez, George A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
The information that individuals can hold in working memory is quite limited, but researchers have typically studied this capacity using simple objects or letter strings with no associations between them. However, in the real world there are strong associations and regularities in the input. In an information theoretic sense, regularities…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Memorization, Probability, Organizations (Groups)
Moser, Gene W. – 1973
As the proceedings of a symposium held at the 1973 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, theoretical and experimental results from research in the use of information theory to study human learning are presented in this volume to reflect the efforts made at the University of Pittsburgh over the past four…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Information Theory
Marsh, Patrick O. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1979
This theoretical model for message design directs the designer to design a block of time that optimizes the information load and message complexity within the constraints of the receiver's abilities and experience, the requirements of the source, and the capabilities and limitations of the medium. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Theories, Information Theory
Schrader, Clifford L.; Herron, J. Dudley – 1972
This study was designed to investigate the role of information storage and processing in the cognitive process of synthesis. In particular the effect of the timing of the presentation of two subordinate informational concepts on the cognitive process of synthesis was examined. 88 high school students in four sections of an introductory chemistry…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, High School Students
Whitehall, Richard P.; Redding, Juliette L. – 1970
The theoretical and practical structure of a learning skills program based on an organization model is described. The first section of the paper deals with the description and implication of the program. Ideographic questioning and examination of a group of students and their study habits led to the development of an information processing model…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation
