title: Information processing of trauma.
abstract: This article presents a neuropsychosocial model to explain a victimization experience. It surveys the relation of sensation, perception, and cognition as a systematic way to provide a framework for studying human behavior and to describe human response to traumatic events. This framework is an information processing approach. The goal of information processing investigations is to identify how incoming external stimuli or intentionally engendered stimuli enter the central nervous system and eventuate in some kind of final response.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Boston College School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Hartman
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008032:Limbic System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D011603:Psychophysiology