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Describe how cognitive psychology is related to other fields

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Technological influence
Other than different disciplines of psychology, the development of technology has contributed a great deal to the development of cognitive psychology. From communication Engineering, devices such as radios, TVs, and telephones are examples of information transmission systems that have helped in understanding how information is processed. In 1948 for example, Bell Telephone mathematician Claude Shannon develop a theory of how communication systems work.

Computer Science
Computer science was the second technological advance that had a dramatic impact on developing the study of the mind. Cognitive psychologists viewed the mind as a computer
Computers handle information in three basic stages: Input, some type of processing, and output. The computer provided a good description of how the mind could work. For instant you receive information from the stimuli through your sensory organs (Input), your mind works on the information you receive ( processing) and you respond ( output).

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