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What Is Cognitive Science

What is cognitive science? A scientific explanation would be “the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology.” (1) But what does that mean, cognitive science has been quitely growing since ancient Greece when philosphers debated and struggled to uderstand the questions what is the mind, and what is knowing. Philosepher are still debating that question even today, however in the mid 1950’s while the psychological world was dominated by the likes of Skinner and Watson and their behavorist models of learning cognitive science made its debut. At the forefront of the field were three primary theorists; Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and Jean Pieaget. With their theories human learning was no longer thought of as stimulus response, but instead as a product of the mind not bound to a reinforcer or punisher.
Jerome Bruner began working on his theories for cognitive......


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