Cognitive Quotes

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Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

The guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of problems - physical, mental, emotional, cognitive. You know, he comes with a whole lot of baggage, and I think it's pretty obvious.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.