书目名称 | The Measurement of Verbal Information in Psychology and Education |
编辑 | Klaus Weltner |
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丛书名称 | Communication and Cybernetics |
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描述 | Information theory and cybernetics have developed along somewhat different lines in Europe and in the U. S. A. This book is to be seen as a contribution towards bridging the gap. Anyone who seeks to apply information theory in the fields of education and psychology very soon comes up against a central diffi culty: in the form in which it was developed by Shannon information theory excludes the semantic aspect. This problem is fundamental for in education, as in psychology, the semantic aspect is the very heart of the matter. Thus, while Attneave, Miller and Quastler, among others, successfully employed the concepts and units of measurement of in formation theory in the interpretation of the findings of experimental psychology, they were obliged to restrict their work to its syntactic and statistical aspects. Before we can make use of the methods and results of information we have to solve the central problem: How can theory in actual teaching, we measure the semantic information of a verbal message? The only way to do this is by extending the theory. A special concept has been deve loped for this purpose: subjective information. In place of an objectively measurable quantity (fr |
出版日期 | Book 1973 |
关键词 | Erziehung; Information; Information in Psychology and Education; Kybernetische Pädagogik; cybernetics; in |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65637-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-65639-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-65637-8Series ISSN 0340-0034 |
issn_series | 0340-0034 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1973 |