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In psychology, information-seeking is described as a process of active search in which an organism behaves with the purpose of acquiring new knowledge. It may be motivated by uncertainty reduction, compression of internal representations of the world, the prospective instrumentality or valence of the information to be obtained.[1] It is closely related to curiosity, novelty- and sensation-seeking, sensemaking, and the decision to explore or exploit. Active research in the adjacent fields of artificial intelligence and robotics attempts to replicate in algorithms an intrinsic desire for knowledge.
When information-seeking behavior is goal-directed and results in knowledge that may lead to future rewards, it is instrumental information-seeking. In contrast, an organism may actively seek out information without the prospect of reward, in which case their behavior is non-instrumental[2].
References
edit- ^ Cogliati Dezza, Irene; Schulz, Eric; Wu, Charley M., eds. (2022). The Drive for Knowledge: The Science of Human Information Seeking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009026949. ISBN 978-1-316-51590-7.
- ^ van Lieshout, Lieke LF; de Lange, Floris P; Cools, Roshan (2020-10-01). "Why so curious? Quantifying mechanisms of information seeking". Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Curiosity (Explore vs Exploit). 35: 112–117. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.08.005. ISSN 2352-1546.