Draft:Information Seeking (Psychology)

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. 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.