We would like to offer to the attention of the readers a scientific report as a statement of the author’s hypothesis, which is
experimentally tested, but requires an additional verification. The report addresses the trends outlined in the course of the
scientific research on identification of regular patterns that describe the influence of information on people. The content of
this scientific report relates to the field of interdisciplinary scientific research at the junction of the information theory and
cognitive psychology. The article describes the criteria for evaluating the meaning of an information message and a speechmental
activity of a person. Subject to an appropriate follow-on development, the results obtained can be applied in cognitive
psychology, psychiatry and in the domain of artificial intellect.
We continue publishing the findings of the scientific research
on the topic of information influence on people. This scientific
report addresses the findings of the research, the beginning
of which was described in our article. In this research we
tried to identify the criteria for evaluating the meaning of an
information message and speech-mental activity of a person.
While the work has been performed, healthy people have been
involved as test subjects. But, it would be useful and interesting
to conduct a series of experiments under clinical conditions,
because in terms of emotions, a healthy individual and a person
suffering from a mental disorder can perceive the meaning
of the same information message in dissimilar ways.
The sphere of our scientific interest includes the elements of
information theory and cognitive psychology. Characterizing
cognitive psychology as a new scientific trend in psychology,
W. Naisser noted in his book that tracing the movement of the
information flow within the “system” (i.e. in the brain) is a toppriority
objective in this new field of knowledge. The goal
set by one of the founders of cognitive psychology is identical
to the goal of our scientific work.
This implies that the object of
our study is cognitive psychology, which we research using the
method of information theory.
A person conveys or receives information in the process of
speech-mental activity. This is a conscious or unconscious intellectual
activity of a person, in which information is used in the
form of speech. For presentation of information, an alphabet of
the relevant natural language is used. One of the derivatives of
the speech-mental activity of a person is a textual information
message (text), to which a person attaches some meaning. A
textual information message with a sense attached to it is the
subject of our research.
The speech-mental activity plays an important role in the process
of interaction between people. One of the reasons why
conflicts occur between people could be a misinterpreted information
message. In other words, misinterpretation of the
sense of the information message. This question is also relevant
in psychiatry for evaluation of the speech-mental activity
of a person in a disturbed state of mind (delirium).
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