Cognitive Gadgets - The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes's view these cognitive gadgets are not programmed in the genes. They are constructed over the course of childhood through social interaction. From birth, our malleable minds learn from our culture-soaked human environment not only what to think but how to think it.

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Cecilia Heyes

Summary

Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes's view these cognitive gadgets are not programmed in the genes. They are constructed over the course of childhood through social interaction. From birth, our malleable minds learn from our culture-soaked human environment not only what to think but how to think it.

Product details

• Authors: Cecilia Heyes, Heyes Cecilia
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2018
• EAN: 9780674980150
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98015-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Kognitionswissenschaft, Ratgeber, Sachbuch: Psychologie, Kognitive Psychologie, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie, Psychologische Methodenlehre, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology, Popular psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, Cognitive studies, Cognitive Science, Cognitivism, cognitive theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Humanistic, Evolution / Evolutionary biology