Information processing theory describes how learners receive and process information through their senses. It involves stages of encoding, storage, and retrieval of different types of knowledge in various memory stores like sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Key aspects of the theory include how attention filters incoming information, the role of executive control processes like forgetting through decay and interference, and methods that can aid retrieval from long-term memory such as rehearsal, organization, and visualization.

1. INFORMATION
PROCESSING THEORY

2. INFORMATION
PROCESSING THEORY
 Describes how the learner
receives information from the
environment through the senses.

3. TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
 general vs. Specific
 Declarative
 Procedural
 Episodic
 Conditional

4. STAGES in the INFORMATION
PROCESSING THEORY
 Encoding
 Storage
 Retrieval

5. SENSORY REGISTER
 The first step in the IP model, holds all
sensory information for a very brief time.
 Capacity
 Duration
 There is a difference in duration based on
modality: auditory memory is more
persistent than visual.

6. THE ROLE OF ATTENTION
 To bring information into consciousness, it is
necessary that we give attention to it.
 Getting through this attentional filter is done
when the learner is interested in the material.
 Before information is perceived, it is known
as “precategorial” information.

7. SHORT TERM
MEMORY
(WORKING MEMORY)

8. LONG TERM
MEMORY

9. EXECUTIVE CONTROL
PROCESSES
 FORGETTING
 Two main ways in which forgetting likely
occurs:
 DECAY
 INTERFERENCE

10. METHODS for INCREASING
RETRIEVAL of INFORMATION
 Rehearsal
 Meaningful learning
 Organization
 Elaboration
 Visual imagery
 Generation
 Context
 Personalization

11. OTHER MEMORY METHODS
 Serial Position Effect
 Part Learning
 Distributed Practices
 Mnemonic Acids