... of human mental processes and memory structures in order to understand human behaviour' (1991, p. 1). Cognitive psychology has a scientific basis and refers to the fact that all people should be able to come up with the same result following the same procedure. Therefore, your own intuitions and feelings about how your mind works are not acceptable bases for cognitive psychology because these are not directly observable by others. The main tool that cognitive psychology uses to explain mental processes is the information processing model (Reynolds & Flagg, 1977). This model is based on the idea that humans are processors of information. Information comes in through our sense receptors, we apply a mental operation to it and thus change it, we apply another operation and change it again, until we have an output ready to be stored in memory or used to generate some behaviour (Mayer, 1991). According to ...

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