acquired cognitive schema

is a theoretical model developed to describe what makes possible the environmentally acquired psychic, sensory motor, or emotional dispositions we call culture.

Acquired cognitive schemas, as Descola explains in Chapter 4, are theoretical models developed to describe precisely those capacities that make the often non-propositional forms of collective knowledge we call culture possible. 'They may be defined', Descola tells us, 'as psychic, sensorimotor and emotional dispositions that are internalized thanks to experience acquired in a given social environment' (p. 103). They enable us to structure our perceptions, organize our actions, thoughts, and feelings according to relatively stereotyped scenarios, and interpret patterns of behaviour and events in terms of a shared framework. See more at: http://aotcpress.com/articles/anthropological-cosmochemistry/#stash.kiopKoHk.dpuf

acquired cognitive schema, n.Definitions

acquired cognitive schema