Quotes About Cognition

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Veel van onze angsten berusten op pure inbeelding. Verander je inbeelding en je zult minder angst hebben.

A useful guideline is to limit to three the numbers in a sentence—three seems to be all the reader's brain can

They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.

Mais do que ser educando por causa de uma razão qualquer, o educando precisa tornar-se educando assumindo-se como sujeito cognoscente e não como incidência do discurso do educador. Nisto é que reside, em última análise, a grande importância política do ato de ensinar.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.

People see God every day; they just don't always recognize Him.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Understanding makes the mind lazy.

No matter the origin, it's you who notices an idea and gives it weight; the perception is always happening in you.

How does the brain wire words? Why do the Swiss manage three languages, while most Americans have trouble with one?

I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember

Cognitive recovery work aims to make your brain user friendly. It focuses on recognizing and eliminating the destructive thoughts and thinking processes you were indoctrinated with in childhood.

The problem with deep thinking was it could lead to unpleasant conclusions.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

Cognitive psychologists have confirmed what we already knew: that readers of complex novels show a greater capacity for understanding the complexities of human interaction.8

Periodic practice arrests forgetting, strengthens retrieval routes, and is essential for hanging onto the knowledge you want to gain.

Reflection can involve several cognitive activities that lead to stronger learning: retrieving knowledge and earlier training from memory, connecting these to new experiences, and visualizing and mentally rehearsing what you might do differently next time.

Effortful retrieval makes for stronger learning and retention.

By massed practice we mean the single-minded, rapid-fire repetition of something you're trying to burn into memory, the "practice-practice-practice" of conventional wisdom. Cramming for exams is an example. Rereading and massed practice give rise to feelings of fluency that are taken to be signs of mastery, but for true mastery or durability these strategies are largely a waste of time.

People commonly believe that if you expose yourself to something enough times—say, a textbook passage or a set of terms from an eighth grade biology class—you can burn it into memory. Not so.