Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) or Career Information Processing (CIP) : theory describes career decision-making like a recipe, which involves several components as well as a process for integrating these components to come out with an end product. Two diagrams that help to illustrate this process are the Pyramid of Information Processing and The CASVE (Communication,Analysis , Synthesis ,Valuing ,Executing) Cycle.
When I first saw your question, I think of information-processing approaches, wherein one's brain, like a computer, receives, stores, codes, retrieves and generates an output. After these first thoughts, I understood to question has to do with has to do with Career Information Processing or CIP.
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