Domain Specific In Psychology

Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science especially modern cognitive development that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized presumably evolutionarily specified learning devices.

Domain specific in psychology. Thus reasoning across these domains varies as a function of the naive theory that is brought to bear in a particular situation. Cognitive includes the study of perception cognition memory and intelligence domain 3. The position is a close relative of modularity of mind but is considered more general in that it does not. The domain specificity advocate claim that faces contrary to non face objects are processed holistically and that specialized cognitive and neural functioning in the cortical region are activated when faces are processed kanwisher and yovel 2006.

Psychology definition of domain specific ability. For example birds use different memory systems and different rules for remembering species song the taste of poisonous food and locations of food caches. In the domain of psychology children reason about sentient beings and mental processes. Thus training in one domain may not impact another independent domain.

Domain specific learning theories of development hold that we have many independent specialized knowledge structures rather than one cohesive knowledge structure. In the domain of biology children reason about living things and distinctly biological processes. Compare domain general ability. Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science especially modern cognitive development that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized presumably evolutionarily specified learning devices.

A cognitive ability specific to doing task. Biological includes neuroscience consciousness and sensation domain 2. For example core knowledge theorists believe we have highly specialized functions that are independent of one.