Psychological movements are considered to be post-cognitivist if they are opposed to or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr, and others.
Examples of postcognivist propositions:
- autopoesis
- Activity Theory
- connectionism
- direct realism
- distributed cognition
- discursive psychology
- dynamicism
- ecological psychology
- embodied cognition
- Embodied Embedded Cognition
- enactivism
- situated cognition
References
Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1987) Cognitive Psychology in Question. Brighton: Harvester Press Ltd.
Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1991) Against Cognitivism: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Potter, J. (2000). Post cognitivist psychology, Theory and Psychology, 10, 31-37.
Wallace, B., Ross, A., Davies, J.B., and Anderson, T. (2007) The Mind, The Body and the World: Psychology After Cognitivism. London: Imprint Academic.
Zielke, B. (2004) Kognition und soziale Praxis: Der Soziale Konstruktionismus und die Perspektiven einer postkognitivistischen Psychologie. Bielefeld: transcript.
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