How it developed

• 1. People began to see similarities in how computers make sense of information
• 2. Cognitive psychs use computer models to represent particular features of the human mind

  • Brain described as a processor it has data input into it and output from it
• 2. Cognitive psychs use computer models to represent particular features of the human mind

  • Some parts of the brain form networks
• 2. Cognitive psychs use computer models to represent particular features of the human mind

  • Some parts can work sequentially, meaning one process must finish before another starts
• 2. Cognitive psychs use computer models to represent particular features of the human mind

  • Can work in parallel too.
• 3. Computer and human systems follow the same route.

  Human system:

  • Information coming in from the world through sense organs
  • Brain
  • Information passed back out for action
• Differences in humans and computers:

  • Humans influenced by emotional and motivational factors
  • Humans have unlimited but unreliable memory
  • Humans have free will