ABSTRACT
The history of psychology as a self-consciously developing science has been marked by an obsessive concern for the scientific respectability of its theories. The reasons for this seem to be twofold. First, being recognized as a 'science' has seemed to many psychologists a sign of intellectual respectability and an indication that positivistic certitude is indeed possible in the realm of human nature. Second, the enormous range of qualitatively different phenomena has led to many different types of exploration being applied to that supposedly single topic, man's nature, and a difficulty in relating each to the others. There are many different kinds of explanation used in psychology, and the logical analysis of a psychoanalytic theory will differ considerably from the similar analysis of a model based on the applied mathematics of Shannon's communication theory. In order to use the information theory as a psychological theory, are required to map these concepts, properties and relationships.
