Quotes About Cognition

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.

Sólo porque recuerdes algo no quiere decir que sea correcto. Es sólo cómo eliges recordarlo.

There are many ways to tell if someone is a bit thick. You can sit them in a room and ask them to push various bits of plastic into a wooden box. Or you can ask them to describe a cloud. Or you can carefully measure the distance between their eyes, the height of their forehead or the length of their arm.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

We are not just information processors, we are meaning makers.

Contrary to common sense there is no unique "real world" that pre-exists and is independent of human mental activity and human symbolic language; that which we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world.

to taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You'll regret it if you don't.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

better than any person living there, and thought she knew what to

But while they were aware of their knowledge and used it, we repress our knowledge immediately, because if it were conscious it would make life too difficult and, as we persuade ourselves, too "dangerous.

Opposition is a category of man's mind, not in itself an element of reality.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

Habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly.

I wish I did not think about it so much, he thought.

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.

Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.

It is, as it were, the fundamental principle of cognition that the universal can be perceived only in the particular, while the particular can be thought only in reference to the universal.

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart.

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.