John Vervaeke’s Brilliant 4P/3R Metatheory of Cognition | Psychology Today

Professor John Vervaeke has developed a "4P/3R" model of cognition that explains it both in terms of "knowing" and in terms of "information processing." This is a huge deal.

Professor John Vervaeke has developed a brilliant metatheory of cognition (see here, here, and here). This is quite a feat. As I note in this post, “cognition” is one of the most complicated concepts in science. Indeed, it refers to things like knowing or being aware or thinking. However, it also overlaps with things like “information processing,” and it is sometimes broadly equivalent to what is meant by the mind. The nature and breadth of the confusion can be seen in considering how the disciplines of “psychology,” the “behavioral sciences,” and the “cognitive sciences” are defined and…

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