Fuentes (2020) Flashcards
Imagination model (Abraham)
Five modes/arenas of operation: (1) Mental imagery (perceptual and motor), (2) Phenomenological (emotional), (3) Intentionality (recollective), (4) Novel combinatorial (generative), (5) In altered states
Niche
A dynamic, multidimensional space in which organisms exist. It makes up the organisms’ main context for their interactions with the world and thus with evolutionary processes. Consists of spatial, ecological, and social sphere
Creativity (Fogarty et al., 2015)
Creativity is the original source for cultural evolution and accumulation, introducing new artworks, technology, and social norms
Culture
Defined as behaviour transmitted via social facilitation and learning from others, which endures for long enough to generate customs and traditions. It is the product of human actions and something that shapes those actions
Social traditions
Behavioural practices acquired through social exposure and facilitation, but not clearly rooted in specific genetic/biological causes
Oldowan
The earliest tool technology associated with the genus Homo. The quality and consistency of manufacture are evidence of learning and instruction/social facilitation. It shows the capacity to envision alternative and useful shapes in a stone
Acheulean
Technologies that increased the complexity of the types of stone tool technology. It required more training/learning/teaching and was more varied and dynamic in forms and usage. It enhanced capacity for flexibility in behaviour, diet, and habitat manipulation
Feedback processes
Affected the ways in which Homo neurobiology functioned
Symbol
Something that stands for something else and whose meaning is agreed on by the community constructing it. Often used in archeology as evidence of meaning-making. It can only be accurately perceived and interpreted within the culturally accepted meaning under which it was created
Thus, without cultural context, we cannot accurately know the meaning of the symbol
Peirce’s second proposed trichotomy
Replaces “symbol, icon, index.” Consists of qualsign, sinsign, and legisign
Qualsign
Signifies something through the quality it has, e.g. “redness”
Sinsign
Uses essential facts to convey meaning, e.g. weather vane showing wind direction
Legisign
A sign vehicle based on convention. I.e. if there are multiple examples of the same type of item that conveys similar sensations, we say that it reflects a convention among the group making them in that they are intentionally replicating. In repeated creation, it is evident that it meant something, i.e. records active meaning-making
Skills
The specific patterns of how humans use bodies and minds, are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in a given environment
