Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking. It arose in the 1940s and 1950s. The concept was to develop algorithms which augment intelligence, using computers, which had only been developed in the 1940s. See also the Information Processing Languages (IPL), by Newell, Shaw and Simon. Reference Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard University Press (1990). External link Herbert Simon's sketch of Allen Newell's lifetime accomplishments: [1]. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.