# Information-Processing Psychology **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Cybernetics **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Cognitive Revolution]], [[George A. Miller]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition Information-processing psychology models cognition through the acquisition, transformation, storage and retrieval of information. ## Schedule–Loop Context It is one inheritance of cybernetics inside psychology and provides a vocabulary for internal state, capacity and transformation absent from strict behaviorism. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "It is not that thinking machines will be emulating human minds any time soon: quite the reverse. We are cleaning up our acts, embarrassed by the fumbling inconclusiveness of messy thinking." > **— Ziyad Marar**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans May Be Learning to Think Like Machines by Ziyad Marar|Humans May Be Learning to Think Like Machines by Ziyad Marar]] > "However there's no question the time is coming when machines will indeed need to understand other machines' psychology, so as to be able to work alongside them. What's more, if they are to collaborate effectively with humans, they will need to understand human psychology too." > **— Nicholas Humphrey**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Must Understand Human Psychology by Nicholas Humphrey|Machines Must Understand Human Psychology by Nicholas Humphrey]]