Applying Transemics to Development, Culture, Causality, and Unifying Psychology

Young, Gerald

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“…Let us now use this framework to model cognitive change. Since cognitive change is particularly rapid and noticeable in children (Piaget and Cook, 1952 ), we will model child cognitive development in our example, though we note that the model is equally applicable to cognitive change in adults, and indeed the process of conceptual change in children is not unlike the development of scientific theories by adults (Gopnik, 1988 ; Borsboom et al, 2021 ; Young, 2021 ). The example comes from a study of how children of different ages conceptualize the shape of the planet Earth (Vosniadou and Brewer's, 1992 ), and a subsequent formal analysis of it (Gabora et al, 2022 ).…”

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Beyond two modes of thought: A quantum model of how three cognitive variables yield conceptual change

Winslow

Gabora

2022

Front. Psychol.

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We re-examine the long-held postulate that there are two modes of thought, and develop a more fine-grained analysis of how different modes of thought affect conceptual change. We suggest that cognitive development entails the fine-tuning of three dimensions of thought: abstractness, divergence, and context-specificity. Using a quantum cognition modeling approach, we show how these three variables differ, and explain why they would have a distinctively different impacts on thought processes and mental contents. We suggest that, through simultaneous manipulation of all three variables, one spontaneously, and on an ongoing basis, tailors one's mode of thought to the demands of the current situation. The paper concludes with an analysis based on results from an earlier study of children's mental models of the shape of the Earth. The example illustrates how, through reiterated transition between mental states using these three variables, thought processes unfold, and conceptual change ensues. While this example concerns children, the approach applies more broadly to adults as well as children.

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