{"id":8218,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:19","slug":"information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information\/","title":{"rendered":"Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A technical term, measured in &#8216;bits&#8217; (log base 2) that is often used informally to account for range of events and the sources of constraints on expression. &nbsp;This is a formal interpretation of the meaning of information. &nbsp;It has, however, assumed a monolithic status in psychology, with its meaning (loosely applied), having different interpretations being adopted in cognitive theory, information-processing theory relative to ecological psychology as espoused by Gibson and his followers. &nbsp;A very insightful paper on the history of psychology, the way it came into usage in psychology, and its current status can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.lancs.ac.uk\/people\/alan-collins\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.psych.lancs.ac.uk\/people\/alan-collins&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collins, A.<\/a> (2007). From H = log <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">s<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">n&nbsp;<\/span>to conceptual framework: a short history of information. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">History of Psychology<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">10<\/span>, 44-72. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"closed_system\">Closed system<\/a>, <a href=\"complexity\">Complexity<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_psychology\">Cognitive psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"constraint\">Constraint<\/a>, <a href=\"ecological_psychology\">Ecological psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"entropy\">Entropy<\/a>, <a href=\"information-processing_theories\">Information-processing theories<\/a>, KInetic depth effect, <a href=\"ligands\">Ligands<\/a>, <a href=\"open_system\">Open system<\/a>, <a href=\"organism-environment_mutualism\">Organism-environment mutualism<\/a>, <a href=\"pictorial_depth_cues\">Pictorial depth cues<\/a>, <a href=\"prospective_control_-psychology-\">Prospective control (psychology)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical term, measured in &#8216;bits&#8217; (log base 2) that is often used informally to account for range of events and the sources of constraints on expression. &nbsp;This is a formal interpretation of the meaning of information. &nbsp;It has, however, assumed a monolithic status in psychology, with its meaning (loosely applied), having different interpretations being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/information\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}