IDH   23901
INSTITUTO DE HUMANIDADES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Two guidelines to reconstruct an alternative evolutionary psychology: A Gibsonian assessment
Autor/es:
RABINOVICH, DIANA LUZ
Lugar:
Madrid
Reunión:
Workshop; 12th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology; 2012
Institución organizadora:
International Society of Ecological Psychology
Resumen:
I assume that it is possible to reconstruct an alternative tendency to Evolutionary Psychology, already in the observations that Lehrman (1953) sketched to Lorenz and then following the path traced by discussions within evolutionary biology as well as in cognitive psychology (Lickliter 2000, Lickliter & Honeycutt 2003, Lickliter & Schneider 2006, Rabinovich 2011). Upon this basis, one distinctive feature of this tendency is centered in the characterization of systematic interactions between organism and environment during ontogenetic developmental processes. I propose two guidelines so as to recognize the value of this line of research: on the one hand, through the reconstruction of the studies in terms of the description of peculiarities of the functional specialization processes; on the other hand, by tracking interpretations of the features of the environmental structuration that systematically gives rise to cognitive development. In particular, I will reintroduce the notions of perceptual system and affordance (Gibson 1979) in order to evaluate the style and richness of these investigations.