Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter challenges the assumption that cognitive psychology is a neutral, disembodied science of the mind. Instead, it reveals that cognitive psychology emerged from a particular time and place, shaped by the pressures of war, the demands of bureaucracy, and the technical metaphors of control, command, and computation. Beginning with the story of Kenneth Craik, a brilliant young psychologist whose wartime research helped lay the foundations for modern cognitive models, the chapter shows how metaphors of memory as storage, processing, and retrieval were never simply descriptive. They were imaginative projections of the environments and values in which psychologists themselves were embedded. Drawing on the critical thinking tool of embodied cognition, the chapter argues that thought is not abstract or free-floating but shaped by our physical bodies, our lived experiences, and our institutional contexts. It examines how cognitive psychology borrowed from engineering, telecommunications, and military systems. It concludes with a call to rethink metaphors of mind not as data manipulation but as embodied activity.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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