Intelligence As Processing
Before information processing theory, psychologists had trouble operationally defining intelligence. One psychologist even ventured to define intelligence as, "What intelligence tests measure." Information processing defines intelligence as processing. In this way, intelligence can be researched with a more definitive purpose. If the better processor is the smarter human, then getting at what makes people better processors from a psychological level all the way to a biochemical level will help humans understand intelligence much better.
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