~INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL~

TOPIC 9

Information Processing Theories

- Concerned with the internal process

- Implication:

1) organize the instructional materials in a meaningful manner

2) directed instruction

Characteristics of Directed Instruction

- Prerequisite

- Supply instructional conditions

- Determine the type of learning

- Leads to step-by-step process

Stage Model of Information Processing

- Stage theory is based on work of Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)

- model proposes that information is processed and stored in 3 stages:

1) Sensory memory

2) Short-term memory

3) Long-term memory

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