Postcognitivism

Postcognitivism

Psychological movements are considered to be post-cognitivist if they are opposed or move beyond the cognitivist theories posited by Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, David Marr and others.

Examples of postcognivist propositions:
* connectionism
* discursive psychology
* dynamicism
* embodied cognition
* situated cognition
* behavior analysis
* distributed cognition
* autopoesis
* ecological psychology
* direct realism
* enactivism

References

Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1987) C"ognitive Psychology in Question". Brighton: Harvester Press Ltd.

Costall, A. and Still, A. (eds) (1991) A"gainst 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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