A Contribution to the Analysis of Human Speed of Information Processing: Developmental and Differential Arguments Cover Image

Doprinos analizi ljudske brzine obradbe podataka: razvojni i diferencijalni argumenti
A Contribution to the Analysis of Human Speed of Information Processing: Developmental and Differential Arguments

Author(s): Mislav Stjepan Žebec
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: age changes; RCP property; Intelligence Model; speed of information processing

Summary/Abstract: Speed of human information processing (SIP) is a research construct which has been examined under different names and with different intensity for more than sixty years. Its importance is briefly described in four research fields: differential, experimental, aging and cognitive development. Since SIP presents an important component of contemporary intelligence models and life-span cognitive development research, an attempt for the construction of an integrated SIP picture was necessary. Review and systematic analysis of 42 research papers and additional related literature showed that there are problems with the validity of the SIP construct, but it also revealed other theoretical and empirical inconsistencies. A new proposal for SIP phenomena has been made, which abandons the SIP construct with related measures, and introduces the RCP property as one of the general attributes of every cognitive process.

  • Issue Year: 13/2004
  • Issue No: 69+70
  • Page Range: 267-292
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English