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Information chunks refer to information bits grouped into larger units.

Information control refer to communications about the nature of health -related situations given to potential recipient of stressful event.

Information gathering refer to the skills used to gather information from clients which includes the use of questions, conducting a structured interview, and assessment techniques.

Information giving refers to one of three (3) problem-focused skills, commonly used skills, in which the clinician offers objective information of which the client is truly unaware in an effort to help the client reach his or her goals. More potentially harmful than offering alternatives but less than advice giving. Please see also Offering alternatives and Advice giving.

Information overload means having too much information to comprehend or integrate

Information processing is defined as the view in which cognitive processes are compared to the functions of computers. The theory deals with the input, storage, retrieval, manipulation, and output of information. the focus is on the development of children's strategies for solving problems, or their "mental programs"

Information processing approach refers to an approach to cognition that uses a computer metaphor in its explanations. Information processing equates cognition with the acquisition, storage, and manipulation of information, for example, what we see, hear, read about, think about through a system consisting of various storage places and systems of exchange.

Information-processessing refers to the way an individual attends to, perceives, interprets, remembers, and acts on events or situations.