If cognitivist theory shifts attention from the organism's mental architecture to the interactions of organism and environment does it cease to be organocentric, or does it just assume the environment as a new part of that architecture?

-- Linda Holland (hollandj@ozemail.com.au), August 10, 2001

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Hi Linda, It seems cognitive theory would focus on the "organism's mental architecture" at the exclusion of enviromental factors and adaptation. Can you give us an example of a specific cognitive theory which turns the focus onto the enviroment or emphasizes environmental factors? And in this theory, how is the environment represented in the cognition? Thanks, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), August 22, 2001.