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Download full textWalker, Jerry P. – 1971
Decisionmaking is the process of choosing among alternatives, or turning inputs into outputs. In a situation of information overload, inputs exceed the decisionmaker's capacity to assimilate and act on the information as well as his ability to evaluate every alternative. Decisionmakers have a variety of responses to information overload, some of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Feedback, Information Processing, Information Sources
Nwagbaroacha, Joel O.; And Others – 1975
PPBS is a process by which priorities among the kinds of services a college may provide are weighed, objectives are stated in operational terms, alternative means to accomplish the given objectives are analyzed, and a choice among competing means is made according to criteria for efficient utilization of resources. This manual attempts to…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgets, Evaluation, Guidelines
Bair, James H. – 1971
In man-computer communication, the computer responds only as it is programed to respond. A human's response is more complicated because it depends on the "pre-programed" ways that humans process information. The three functions a man performs on received information are conservation (in which messages are retained whole), reduction (in which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Computers, Conceptual Schemes
