Motivated Cognition
Published Thursday 16 November 2023 at 10:31
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Systemic causality (systemic causation), as opposed to direct cause-effect, is not a naturally occurring learning concept, says Prof. George Lakoff, a leading cognitive linguist from the University of California (Berkeley). [+]
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We know that people think in contexts which are well defined and which have clear semantic roles, and these thinking contexts are known as frames. For example, a school frame, when invoked, contains: textbooks, desks, whiteboards, teachers and students – these are all objects with a semantic role of their own which dictates their expected behavior or function. Frames are a well-known concept in social sciences which is related to social constructivism. [+]
