Cognitivepsychology in the Middle Ages.Simon Kemp -1996 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.detailsThis book summarizes the ideas aboutcognitivepsychology expressed in the writings of medieval Europeans. Up until the 13th century, Christians who wrote aboutcognitivepsychology, foremost of whom was St. Augustine, did so in the Neoplatonic tradition. The translation of the works of Aristotle and some of the works of Arab scholars into Latin during the 12th and 13th centuries brought a high level of sophistication to the theories. The author touches upon the works of (...) Augustine, Averro^Des, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and others. (shrink)
Cognitivepsychology: A phenomenological critique.Frederick J. Wertz -1993 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 13 (1):2-24.detailsReviews the general orientation ofcognitivepsychology, some contemporary difficulties and problems noted bycognitive psychologists, and apparent commonalities between phenomenological andcognitive psychologies. It is argued that the problems ofcognitivepsychology are inevitable consequences of its natural scientific orientation, which is far more traditional than it is revolutionary. A phenomenologically based, human science approach topsychology is offered as a solution of fundamental disciplinary problems. 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Appliedcognitivepsychology and the "strong replacement" of epistemology by normativepsychology.Carole J. Lee -2008 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (1):55-75.detailsis normative in the sense that it aims to make recommendations for improving human judgment; it aims to have a practical impact on morally and politically significant human decisions and actions; and it studies normative, rational judgment qua rational judgment. These nonstandard ways of understanding ACP as normative collectively suggest a new interpretation of the strong replacement thesis that does not call for replacing normative epistemic concepts, relations, and inquiries with descriptive, causal ones. Rather, it calls for recognizing that the (...) aims and normative inquiries of epistemology and normativepsychology have become intermutual in nature. Key Words: Heuristics and biases • appliedcognitivepsychology • normativepsychology • rationality • naturalized epistemology • Epistemics • Applied Naturalized Epistemology • strong replacement • strategic reliabilism • ameliorativepsychology. (shrink)
TheCognitivePsychology of the Potentiality Argument.Lincoln Frias &Noel Struchiner -2013 -American Journal of Bioethics 13 (1):36-38.detailsThis short commentary argues that the potentiality argument against abortion derives its appeal from features embedded in ourcognitive structure.
Motivation and Experience VersusCognitive Psychological Explanation.Tom Feldges -2018 -Humana Mente 11 (33).detailsThe idea to utilisecognitive neuroscientific research for educational purposes is known as Mind-Brain Education or Educational Neuroscience. Despite some calls for an uncritical endorsement of such an agenda, a growing number of educational scholars argue that it must remain impossible to translate neurological descriptions into mental or educationally relevant descriptions. This paper takes these well-established arguments further by not only focusing upon these different levels of description but going beyond this issue to assess the theoretical foundations of (...) class='Hi'>cognitive science as a functional theory of the mind. With relevance to education it is argued that because of its functional character acognitive-psychological approach to education suffers from an inherent blind spot regarding the actor’s feelings and motivations. The paper concludes with the claim that, because of this experiential poverty, anycognitive neuroscientific approach must face severe limitations when utilised for educational purposes. (shrink)
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The computational metaphor andcognitivepsychology.Gerard Casey -unknowndetailsThe past three decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of research interest in the mind. This trend has been acclaimed as the ‘cognitive revolution’ inpsychology. At the heart of this revolution lies the claim that the mind is a computational system. The purpose of this paper is both to elucidate this claim and to evaluate its implications forcognitivepsychology. The nature and scope ofcognitivepsychology andcognitive science are outlined, the (...) principal assumptions underlying the information processing approach to cognition are summarised and the nature of artificial intelligence and its relationship tocognitive science are explored. The ‘computational metaphor’ of mind is examined and both the theoretical and methodological issues which it raises forcognitivepsychology are considered. Finally, the nature and significance of ‘connectionism’—the latest paradigm incognitive science—are briefly reviewed. (shrink)
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Note on reductionism incognitivepsychology: Reification ofcognitive processes into mind, mind-brain equivalence, and brain-computer analogy.Joseph M. Notterman -2000 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):116-121.detailsThis note brings together three phenomena leading to a tendency toward reductionism incognitivepsychology. They are the reification ofcognitive processes into an entity called mind; the identification of the mind with the brain; and the congruence by analogy of the brain with the digital computer. Also indicated is the need to continue studying the effects upon behavior of variables other than brain function. 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
The reductionist ideal incognitivepsychology.Richard Montgomery -1990 -Synthese 85 (November):279-314.detailsI offer support for the view that physicalist theories of cognition don't reduce to neurophysiological theories. On my view, the mind-brain relationship is to be explained in terms of evolutionary forces, some of which tug in the direction of a reductionistic mind-brain relationship, and some of which which tug in the opposite direction. This theory of forces makes possible an anti-reductionist account of thecognitive mind-brain relationship which avoids psychophysical anomalism. This theory thus also responds to the complaint which (...) arguably lies behind the Churchlands' strongest criticisms of anti-reductionism — namely the complaint that anti-reductionists fail to supply principled explanations for the character of the mind-brain relationship. While lending support to anti-reductionism, the view defended here also insures a permanent place for mind-brain reduction as an explanatory ideal analogous to Newtonian inertial motion or Aristotelian natural motion. (shrink)
Beyond Cognition: Psychological and Social Transformations in People Living with Dementia and Relevance for Decision-Making Capacity and Opportunity.John Noel Viaña,Fran McInerney &Henry Brodaty -2020 -American Journal of Bioethics 20 (8):101-104.detailsWalsh (2020) underscores how dementia leads to acognitive transformative experience, which can result in a change in preferences, values, and beliefs. This transformation supports placing greater...
The Oxford Handbook ofCognitivePsychology.Daniel Reisberg (ed.) -2013 - Oup Usa.detailsThis handbook is an essential, comprehensive resource for students and academics interested in topics incognitivepsychology, including perceptual issues, attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, emotional influences, judgment, problem solving, and the study of individual differences in cognition.
Alternative Probability Theories forCognitivePsychology.Louis Narens -2014 -Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (1):114-120.detailsVarious proposals for generalizing event spaces for probability functions have been put forth in the mathematical, scientific, and philosophic literatures. Incognitivepsychology such generalizations are used for explaining puzzling results in decision theory and for modeling the influence of context effects. This commentary discusses proposals for generalizing probability theory to event spaces that are not necessarily boolean algebras. Two prominent examples are quantum probability theory, which is based on the set of closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, (...) and topological probability theory, which is based on the set of open sets of a topology. Both have been applied to a variety ofcognitive situations. This commentary focuses on how event space properties can influence probability concepts and impactcognitive modeling. (shrink)
Social andCognitivePsychology Theories in Understanding COVID-19 as the Pandemic of Blame.Ayoub Bouguettaya,Clare E. C. Walsh &Victoria Team -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsWhen faced with adverse circumstances, there may be a tendency for individuals, agencies, and governments to search for a target to assign blame. Our focus will be on the novel coronavirus outbreak, where racial groups, political parties, countries, and minorities have been blamed for spreading, producing or creating the virus. Blame—here defined as attributing causality, responsibility, intent, or foresight to someone/something for a fault or wrong—has already begun to damage modern society and medical practice in the context of the COVID-19 (...) outbreak. Evidence from past and current pandemics suggest that this tendency to seek blame affects international relations, promotes unwarranted devaluation of health professionals, and prompts a spike of racism and discrimination. By drawing on social andcognitivepsychology theories, we provide a framework that helps to understand the effect of blame in pandemics, when people blame, whom they blame, and how blame detrimentally affects the COVID-19 response. Ultimately, we provide a path to inform health messaging to reduce blaming tendencies, based on social psychological principles for health communication. (shrink)
Methodological solipsism considered as a research strategy incognitivepsychology.Jerry A. Fodor -1979 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1):63-73.detailsThe paper explores the distinction between two doctrines, both of which inform theory construction in much of moderncognitivepsychology: the representational theory of mind and the computational theory of mind. According to the former, propositional attitudes are to be construed as relations that organisms bear to mental representations. According to the latter, mental processes have access only to formal (nonsemantic) properties of the mental representations over which they are defined.The following claims are defended: (1) That the traditional (...) dispute between “rational” and “naturalistic”psychology is plausibly viewed as an argument about the status of the computational theory of mind. Rational psychologists accept a formality condition on the specification of mental processes; naturalists do not. (2) That to accept the formality condition is to endorse a version of methodological solipsism. (3) That the acceptance of some such condition is warranted, at least for that part ofpsychology which concerns itself with theories of the mental causation of behavior. This is because: (4) such theories require nontransparent taxonomies of mental states; and (5) nontransparent taxonomies individuate mental states without reference to their semantic properties. Equivalently, (6) nontransparent taxonomies respect the way that the organism represents the object of its propositional attitudes toitself, and it is this representation which functions in the causation of behavior.The final section of the paper considers the prospect for a naturalisticpsychology: one which defines its generalizations over relations between mental representations and their environmental causes, thus seeking to account for the semantic properties of propositional attitudes. Two related arguments are proposed, both leading to the conclusion that no such research strategy is likely to prove fruitful. (shrink)
The neglect of the environment bycognitivepsychology.Philip T. Dunwoody -2006 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 26 (1-2):139-153.detailsIn 1955, Egon Brunswik presented a paper in which he argued that neglect of the environment and over emphasis of the organism was the major downfall ofcognitivepsychology. His critiques have largely been ignored and research is discussed that demonstrates the same organismic- asymmetry Brunswik detailed in 1955. This research is discussed in attribution terms since experimental psychologists make behavioral attributions. This organismic-asymmetry has resulted in a body of research that is guilty of the fundamental attribution error. (...) Brunswik's theory of representative design, proposed to address organismic-asymmetry, is discussed and contrasted with calls for ecological validity. Although calls for ecological validity are well intentioned, they lack any systematic theory of the environment and fall significantly short of Brunswik's ideal. 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (shrink)
The use ofcognitivepsychology-based human-computer interaction tax system in ceramic industry tax collection and management and economic development of Jingdezhen city.Mingqing Jiao -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.detailsThis work aims to solve the complex problems of non-linearity, instability, and multiple economic factors in the tax forecast of the ceramic industry to ensure the sustainable development of the ceramic industry. The key influential indicators of the tax forecast are obtained by analyzing the principal components affecting the tax index. In addition, a human-computer interaction system is established based oncognitivepsychology theory to improve the user-friendliness of tax analysis. At the same time, the tax data of (...) the ceramic industry in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province in different years are used for the empirical analysis of the tax prediction of different prediction models, including particle swarm optimization algorithm, and fusion algorithm, and support vector machine. This work comprehensively analyzes the influence of the optimized tax supervision mode on the economic development of the ceramic industry and provides ideas for the development of the ceramic industry in Jingdezhen. The research results demonstrate that the main indicator affecting tax revenue is the added value of the primary and secondary industries. The optimized SVM based on grid search method can provide a comprehensive data base for tax forecasting. The optimization of the computer system based oncognitivepsychology improves the model prediction accuracy by 10%, and the absolute error decreases from 6.9 to 1.8%. The tax forecast results indicate that the tax imbalance in Jingdezhen is increasing. Therefore, the government needs to attach great importance to the development of the ceramic industry and strictly implement the tax policy. The tax supervision model can alleviate the problems of low fiscal contribution rate, tax evasion, and management loopholes. In addition, the SVM tax prediction model optimized by grid search method will lay a theoretical foundation for the research and application of taxation in the ceramic industry. (shrink)