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the processing of information one step at a time. (326)
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execution of instructions one at a time; inefficient and no longer used, after being replaced by concurrent processing.
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refers to the relaying and analysis of sensory information along a single pathway, with each higher stage of the pathway performing some relatively more complex processing. This is well demonstrated in the visual system
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sequential processing by two or more processing units
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A theoretical interpretation of information processing in which several sources of information are processed in a serial order; only one source being attended to at a time. See also parallel processing.
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