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• Events: true/false statements about happenings, situations, states of affairs

• Probabilities are attached to events; the probability can be subjective or objective

• The information value of an event is inversely proportional to its probability.

• The information value of a true event is zero; the information value of an event that is impossible is undefined

• Surprise: The more unexpected an event, the more information it carries

• Shannon’s theory is silent on the meaning of an event

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• Proposition: true/false statements about happenings, situations, states of affairs

• Information is carried by an analog signal r that emanates from a source, ie information is an objective feature of reality

• A human agent digitizes the analog signal

• A human agent has knowledge k, which determines its ability to digitize. The higher the k, the more it can digitize

• Digitizing transforms a proposition into information content. This happens when the conditional probability is one; Pr(p|k,r) = 1

• Information content has meaning for the agent

• Information content becomes a belief

• Knowledge is information caused belief

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• What information is coming through the senses?

• Remember, there are more than 5

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• Top-down attention

• Bottom-up attention

• What tasks are driving attention?

• What unusual parts of the scenario are directing attention?

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• What schemas are being drawn on during processing?

• What background knowledge does the user have that is relevant to the situation?

• Is any information experienced in the scenario being Assimilated into an existing schema?

• Is Accommodation occurring – are any new schemas being formed?

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• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• How are expectations filling in missing information?

• What changes or errors in predictions are the perceptual system picking up in the scenario?

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• Limits to capacity

• Cognitive load

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• What Episodic memories are being drawn on and/or formed?

• What Semantic memories are being drawn on and/or formed?

• What Procedural memories are being drawn on and/or formed?

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• What memories are being Recalled?

• What memories are being remembered through Recognition?

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• What assumptions exist for rational thinking?

• How are the users in your scenario bounded in their rationality?

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• What decision would System 1 make? What heuristics, intuitions, instincts, etc. are driving this decision?

• What decision would a user make if they were employing System 2?

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• How would the Default-Interventionalist Model describe the process of making the decision?

• How would the Parallel-Competitive Model describe the process of making the decision?

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• Availability Bias

• Anchoring Bias

• Framing Effect

• Confirmation Bias

• Correlation=causation

• Hindsight Bias

• Authority Bias

• Loss aversion

• Recency/Primacy Effect

• Modality effect