Information counts as anything that has been found to be true or not true. It can be based on fact or opinion. An example of information as opinion can be observed in Sath Cooper’s article, “South African Psychology 20 Years Into Democracy”. The author writes, “What is now required is for psychology to be open to all realities, eschewing the contrived convenience of any singular truth, and the refusal to allow psychology to be subservient to narrow prejudices and partisan political interests”(Cooper 265). Cooper is simply stating his opinions on how he sees progress in the psychological field. Information provided in a written psychology article often takes the form of a citation of a previous finding or presented by the author as new information in the article (a finding by the author).What might seem to be true information due to proof in studies is not always reliable, and must be taken with a grain of salt. Unreliable information can be a result of bias’s involved when conducting a research study. Just because a researcher has found something to be true due to their own findings in a study does not mean that it is true. Similarly, just because a researcher has found something to be false doesnt mean that it is actually false. True or false, almost everything written down in a psychology article counts as information. below, marked in red, is an example of what Cooper finds to be true, and qualifies as information just for being a written sentence:
Information seems more credible
to the reader when the author cites multiple sources to prove a point. This means that multiple people have found the same things to be true in their discourse.
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