Overview and Assumptions - 2

See thinking as a series of stages.
- Each stage changes the information in some way like different steps in a computer program.
- Some example stages are perception, working and long-term memory, response selection, decision making.
We are limited.
- We can only process so much information at any given time.
- Just as a computer processes only one command at a time we also have a limit.
- This idea leads to the concept of attention and attentional resources.