Quotes About Cognition

At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something. A milkshake.

I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.

But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don't feel like thinking.

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas

Unless we remember we cannot understand

I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it?

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

whats intelegnece without wisdom

Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).

This type of measure was in perfect conformity with Heider's premises, which viewed the cognitive universe as a scene contemplated by the perceiver and that satisfied, to a greater or lesser degree, his or her preference for balance (Heider, 1958).

The original statement of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) proposed that discrepancy between cognitions creates a negative affective state that motivates individuals to attempt to reduce or eliminate the discrepancy between cognitions

Self-perception theory (Bem, 1967, 1972) argues that dissonance effects were not the result of motivation to reduce the psychological discomfort produced by cognitive dissonance but were due to a nonmotivational process whereby persons merely inferred their attitudes from their behavior and the circumstances under which the behavior occurred.

That is why the dissonance-reduction process may result in greater inconsistency among other cognitions. Therefore, the reduction of the ratio, which for us remains the unconditional objective of the dissonance-reduction process, in no way implies that there is consistency among the cognitions that it contains.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

paradoxically, we often end up acting most on our feelings when we are least aware of them, all the while deluding ourselves that we are carefully acting only on judgments. And we are often quite oblivious to the influences that our feelings have on our judgments.

we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

what he thought of that.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.