Cognitive Quotations | Page 2

You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

We don't experience pain in a vacuum. Pain is not solely the result of signals coming from an injured body region, but instead emerges from the interaction between these signals and cognitive information unique to every individual.

It's the cognitive distraction of the conversation that causes problems.

We were looking at whether the initial cognitive impairment predicted or was associated with how they improved in terms of their general neurological impairment. It turned out that, at least in this population, it didn't really matter. The rate of improvement was similar, regardless of whether they had a cognitive impairment at baseline or not.

The training on average took about a decade off the cognitive age of these volunteers,

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

All of the credible medical evidence this court has received over the last five years is that this is not a cognitive response, but rather something akin to a person jerking his/her hand off a hot stove long before he/she has thought about it,