{"id":8217,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information-processing_theories\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:18","slug":"information-processing_theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information-processing_theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Information-processing theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In cognitive psychology, a set of theories derived from formal automata theory originally put forward by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensamientocomplejo.com.ar\/docs\/files\/Von%20Neuman%20-%20Central%20and%20Logical%20Theory%20of%20Automata.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.pensamientocomplejo.com.ar\/docs\/files\/Von%20Neuman%20-%20Central%20and%20Logical%20Theory%20of%20Automata.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John von Neumann<\/a> (1903-1957) at the Hixon symposium (1948). &nbsp;Such theories make the distinction between that which controls (a controlling device) and that which is controlled (a controlled system). &nbsp;Broadly speaking, they contain one of three types of models:&nbsp;cybernetic (closed-loop) models, algorithmic (open-loop) models, or some combination of the two. Furthermore, processing is depicted as taking place via series of step- or stage-like cognitive and perceptual operations. However, just what constitutes &#8216;information&#8217; remains obscure. &nbsp;In recent years, these models have been challenged by those derived from connectionist models and dynamical systems approaches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"closed-loop_and_open-loop_control\">Closed-loop and open-loop control<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_psychology\">Cognitive psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"connectionism\">Connectionism<\/a>, <a href=\"connectionist_models\">Connectionist models<\/a>, <a href=\"constraint\">Constraint<\/a>, <a href=\"covert_attention\">Covert attention<\/a>, <a href=\"cybernetics\">Cybernetics<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, <a href=\"hierarchical_models_of_motor_control\">Hierarchical models of motor control<\/a>, <a href=\"hixon_symposium\">Hixon symposium<\/a>, <a href=\"information\">Information<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm_shift\">Paradigm shift<\/a>, Stimulus-driven development <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cognitive psychology, a set of theories derived from formal automata theory originally put forward by John von Neumann (1903-1957) at the Hixon symposium (1948). &nbsp;Such theories make the distinction between that which controls (a controlling device) and that which is controlled (a controlled system). &nbsp;Broadly speaking, they contain one of three types of models:&nbsp;cybernetic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information-processing_theories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information-processing theories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}