Forum Post: How Knowledge is Acquired
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 1:39 a.m. EST by Cicero
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All people have a set schema (set of beliefs that determine their world view)
In a sense this is the lens through which we view the world.
Now when someone is given a piece of data that runs counter to their schema there are two responses that the mind may chose.
The mind may accept the new knowledge and amend their old schema to include the new data.
The mind is so bent on maintaining the current world view that even when presented with factual irrefutable evidence the mind decides to ignore the new data and keep the old schema.
Unfortunately I have found in my many discussions and arguments here that many of the people who claim to be a part of OWS on this forum chose the second approach.
So sad.
wow what an ego trip; aren't you all high and mighty
Nope, Just stating accepted cognitive theory.
Early developments of the idea in psychology emerged with the Gestalt psychologists and Piaget. However, it is with the work of Bartlett[1] (himself drawing on the term as used by the neurologist Henry Head) that the term came to be used in its modern sense. Bartlett's work was neglected in America during the behaviouristic era until its wholesale recapitulation in Ulric Neisser's massively influential Cognitive Psychology (1967).[3] Neisser's work led to the ubiquity of the term in psychology, and its extension to other disciplines, notably the cognitive and computational sciences. Since that time, many other terms have been used as well, including "frame", "scene", and "script".
You'll never get through to many of these people, Cicero. No one will. Then you have the trolls. Let's hope this isn't an accurate cross section of the actual movement.
I know, I too pray that these are just trolls and not as you say actual OWS members.
They must be trolls I don't think an actual OWS member could believe such things, we are too open mined, too progressive.