Showing papers in "New Ideas in Psychology in 2012"

TL;DR: This article argued that affordances are not mere action possibilities but that they can also invite behavior and suggested a mutualist perspective on invitations, suggesting that they depend on the animal-environment relationship in multiple dimensions.

TL;DR: In this article, a unified account of cognitive flexibility is proposed, which considers cognitive flexibility as a property of the cognitive system, rather than a cognitive skill, and proposes a unified framework for modeling cognitive flexibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that the sense of agency has an ambiguous phenomenology and offer some critical comments on current models that fail to notice this ambiguity, and highlight an important phenomenological distinction that needs to be considered in any discussion of the notion of agency regardless of how it gets defined.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that this form of agency arises through intersubjectivity, which enables the actor to take a perspective outside of the immediate situation and thus extricating the actor from the immediate situations.

TL;DR: In this article, the differences between Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories are discussed, and the difference underlies the way each author addresses the following issues: 1) the origins of development and the motor of development; 2) the relationships among equal peers vs. those based on authorities; 3) the more appropriate methods for studying developmental changes; 4) the importance of the distinction between true vs. necessary knowledge; and 5) the role of transformation and personal reconstruction vs. that of transmission and social influence in the phenomena of development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited and expanded Vygotsky's project of cultural historical psychology to offer a dialectical framework that encompasses but is not limited to relational ontology.

TL;DR: In this article, Heidegger gives an account of what he calls an authentic individual, an individual who can assess her primary desires in the light of higher or second-order motivations concerning what sort of person she wants to be.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic reconstruction of the intersubjective grounds of self-consciousness and self-identity will yield a complex non-reductive notion of agency, which is able to preserve the core features of human agency including intentional causality, conscious understanding thereof, as well as the capacity to distinguish self-caused from externally caused phenomena.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of minimal functionality of emotions is proposed, in terms of their evolutionary origin, their basic neurobiological substratum, and their functional significance in autonomous agents.

TL;DR: In this article, a non-dualistic approach is presented in which introspection and mindfulness are seen not only as psychological but also as social practices, operating simultaneously at the boundary of the individual/inner and social/outer, collapsing such distinctions in practice and radically undermining the distinction between self and other.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a common lexicon and a comprehensive model to integrate and organize the self-regulation research, which is composed of a reference, input, comparator, and output.

TL;DR: The article proposes a set of hypotheses concerning memory systems from the standpoint of a cognitive architecture, in particular, the four-way division of memory (including explicit and implicit procedural memory and implicit declarative memory), and discusses in detail how these hypotheses may be validated through examining qualitatively the literature on memory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of these special bio-cultural relationships, and argue that modeling these relationships requires revisions in conceptions about the ontology of social realities, the relationships between agency and cognition, and naturalism and normativity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural conceptual model of social knowledge and social representations based on the consideration of normative and social identity processes is presented, compatible with contributions of authors external to the classical structural approach, such as Wagner (holomorphy) and Lahlou (propagation model).

TL;DR: In contrast to individualistic, cognitive-biological, and reductive psychologies, a pragmatic psychology of personhood takes the worldly activity of persons as its core subject matter as mentioned in this paper, which offers theoretical frameworks for understanding the development and evolution of persons through their embodied coordination with objects and others in a world that is simultaneously biophysical and sociocultural.

TL;DR: The theory of reciprocal altruism provides the best account of why the notions of self and person evolved to have the form and function they do with respect to human social life and moral capacities as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between technology and technique in the use of computers as tools and how it is leading cognitive sciences into to an era of "webs" and suggest that because of the pace of tool development in these two computer capabilities the theme of the central processing unit dominated early, but we are now entering a new, more complex "age of webs".

TL;DR: The Conceptual Agreement Theory (CAT) as mentioned in this paper is a theory of meaning that specifies the conditions under which two individuals (or one individual at two points in time) will infer they share a diffuse referent.

TL;DR: This article reviewed a stage model of change in human development that integrates a Neo Piagetian model and a Neo-Eriksonian model into one unitary stage model across the lifespan.

TL;DR: Froese and Di Paolo as mentioned in this paper argue that the role of interaction in this experiment is best conceived as that of providing scaffolding for social judgments and thereby simplifying the tasks performed by the individual participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take up the concerns of Vygotsky using the categories of Peirce; and it uses these concerns and categories to re-map some of the terrain explored by analytic philosophy and cognitive science.

TL;DR: This work proposes the following alternative methods for inferring prediction strategies: independent vs. juxtaposed predictions, the use of ‘hot’ mental processes, and theUse of participants’ self-reports.

TL;DR: This article revisited the merits of integrative pluralism as a response to fragmentation as a prelude to elaborating on how the hermeneutico-dialogical proposal can facilitate this.

TL;DR: The authors argue that children anticipate the coordination of activity with others rather than read, probe, or reflectively engage with the psychological states of others, and that children gradually become able to parse and isolate the myriad of incipient somatic, affective, and intentional responses that arise in any given moment.

TL;DR: This paper delineates the development of a computer system to objectively and quantitatively evaluate the space usage using regression models and computer analysis and measures the validity of the system for evaluating grades and ranks.

TL;DR: The dialectic between simulation theory and theory theory is a powerful source of energy for the study of the problem of other minds in social psychology as mentioned in this paper, and the role of theory is neglected.

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid model that uses both piece-on-square chunk and template representations and abstract high-level representations to guide search in chess is presented. But the model does not incorporate abstract/semantic information.