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Dual–systems and the development of reasoning: competence–procedural systems
Author(s) -
Overton Willis F.,
Ricco Robert B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1939-5086
pISSN - 1939-5078
DOI - 10.1002/wcs.120
Subject(s) - cognitive science , competence (human resources) , embodied cognition , cognition , computer science , cognitive development , psychology , epistemology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , social psychology , neuroscience , philosophy
Dual‐system, dual‐process, accounts of adult cognitive processing are examined in the context of a self‐organizing relational developmental systems approaches to cognitive growth. Contemporary adult dual‐process accounts describe a linear architecture of mind entailing two split‐off, but interacting systems; a domain general, content‐free ‘analytic’ system (system 2) and a domain specific highly contextualized ‘heuristic’ system (system 1). In the developmental literature on deductive reasoning, a similar distinction has been made between a domain general competence (reflective, algorithmic) system and a domain specific procedural system. In contrast to the linear accounts offered by empiricist, nativist, and/or evolutionary explanations, the dual competence–procedural developmental perspective argues that the mature systems emerge through developmental transformations as differentiations and intercoordinations of an early relatively undifferentiated action matrix. This development, whose microscopic mechanism is action‐in‐the‐world, is characterized as being embodied, nonlinear, and epigenetic. WIREs Cogni Sci 2011 2 231–237 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.120 This article is categorized under: Psychology > Development and Aging