Information Processing

Duration: 28

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1971

Creator: CRM FILMS

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 1Sep71 · MP22369 (Jan-Jun 1972) Copyright holder: Communications/Research/Machines, Inc

Description: Actor David Steinberg, along with Dr. Donald Norman, present some of the aspects of human information processing: the ways in which people receive information, storing in the memory, information retrieval and information overload. Taken from sequences from a complex social environment--a Hollywood party., Analyzes how people process information, using for its base a crowded noisy cocktail party as observed from a control booth. Features pretty girls and bizarrely dressed men, including some improvisational actors, who demonstrate attention, language processing, long and short term memory, mnemonics, retrieval strategies and problem solving.

Complete Record: Actor David Steinberg, along with Dr. Donald Norman, present some of the aspects of human information processing: the ways in which people receive information, storing in the memory, information retrieval and information overload. Taken from sequences from a complex social environment--a Hollywood party., Analyzes how people process information, using for its base a crowded noisy cocktail party as observed from a control booth. Features pretty girls and bizarrely dressed men, including some improvisational actors, who demonstrate attention, language processing, long and short term memory, mnemonics, retrieval strategies and problem solving.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.