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What is Information Processing

Chapter 336
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
One of the factors that integrate the information literacy competence. It is about being able of properly treating the information. Not only is it about understanding and using it, but it is also about correctly citing and referencing the sources used.
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Importance of Information Literacy
Lidia Sanchez-Ruiz (University of Cantabria, Spain) and Beatriz Blanco (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch336
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Chapter 3
Elderly Tourism Market: Elderly Consumers as a Target Group in Health Tourism
The process of understanding, classifying and storing an external stimulus in the human mind, mental ability.
Published in Chapter: Elderly Tourism Market: Elderly Consumers as a Target Group in Health Tourism; From: Global Perspectives on the Opportunities and Future Directions of Health Tourism
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Chapter 2
Could Emotions Be Modelled through Information Processing?
Is the change or processing of information such as acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination in any manner which is detectable by an observer.
Published in Chapter: Could Emotions Be Modelled through Information Processing?; From: Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics
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Chapter 36
Walking the Information Overload Tightrope
the acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information.
Published in Chapter: Walking the Information Overload Tightrope; From: Handbook of Research on Technoethics
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Chapter 14
Technostress: Information Overload and Coping Strategies
It is the process of analyzing and processing the data and information that access the system itself.
Published in Chapter: Technostress: Information Overload and Coping Strategies; From: Role of Information Science in a Complex Society
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Chapter 6
Hidden Disabilities: Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
Information processing theory is a cognitive theory that views computer processing as a metaphor for human thinking and learning. The theory focuses on how individuals attain, store, and retrieve information.
Published in Chapter: Hidden Disabilities: Nonverbal Learning Disabilities; From: Advising Preservice Teachers Through Narratives From Students With Disabilities
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Chapter 531
The Role of Information in the Choice of IT as a Career
Relates to student’s self-reports about (1) how much they know about job options within IT, (2) what information sources about IT they consider credible, and (3) how often they have interacted with others about career options.
Published in Chapter: The Role of Information in the Choice of IT as a Career; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 52
A Comparative Study on E-Note-Taking
The ability to capture, store and manipulate information. This consists of two main processes; encoding and storage. Students record notes during the encoding stage and conduct reviewing thereafter, in the storage phase.
Published in Chapter: A Comparative Study on E-Note-Taking; From: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 79
Theory and Application: Construction of Multimodal eLearning
A model of how the human senses and brain work to process information ( Shiffrin & Atkinson, 1969 ).
Published in Chapter: Theory and Application: Construction of Multimodal eLearning; From: Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society
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