An automatic system that a person uses to interpret information and react, consisting of inputs, processes, and outputs, is called what?

• A. Functional data
• B. Human information processing system
• C. Nominal data scale
• D. Ordinal data

Answer: (B)

The human information processing system explains how a person interprets information and reacts through a sequence of inputs, processing, and outputs. It describes gathering sensory signals, running mental operations such as perception, attention, memory, and decision-making, and producing a response or action. This aligns perfectly with the idea of an automatic system that handles information and generates a reaction. The other terms refer to data types or statistical concepts rather than a cognitive process: nominal and ordinal data describe ways to categorize or rank information, not how a person processes it; functional data is not a concept used to describe human cognition in this context.