Question

The information processing approach to understanding the mind – and how this relates to computers.

Whats the difference between behavioral and brain (or anatomical) research?

The Sternberg memory scanning task as an example of behavioral research – what three insights did it provide about memory?

Answer 1

Basically, the information processing of human mind is related to computer. Information processing is a method that changes information and provide an output. This information processing has three stages :

1. Attending
2. Encoding
3. Storing
4. Retrieving

As an example :

• suppose you are listening to story of someone who was suffering from trouble, you focus of her words, this is the process of attending.
• Then this information transfer into our memory through an coding process that is called encoding.
• Thereafter, this encoding information changes into our long term or short term memory in our brain, this process is called storing.
• At the last stage, this storage information recall our  previous short term or long term memory for a particular event. This recalling process is called retrieving.

Therefore our brain observe a particular event then it transfer into our memory by encoding process, afterthat it stores into our memory by long term or a short term process and finally we recall this storage information through retrieving process. This is how an environmental input transfers into our behaviour or activities as a output.

Thus the information process of computer works as a same. Computer codes the numeral information, then it transfer into storage and generate an visual output.

Input (Stimulus) > encoding information > storage > retrieving information (output response)

This is how conputer analogy is related to mind analogy.