Cognitive Quotes - Page 10

• The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

  Larry Dossey

  Doe, Different, Fundamentals

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• The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability

  Albert Bandura

  Strong, Judging, Outcomes

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• Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Suicide, Self, Opposites

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.15, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Religious, Believe, Cognitive Dissonance

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

  Alexandra Paul

  Husband, Filled Up, Car

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

  Judith M Bardwick

  Emotional, Intellectual, Ends

  Judith M. Bardwick (1991). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom -- How to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.196, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• 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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Information, Evaluation

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• 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.

  Irving Kirsch

  Thinking, People, Technique

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• In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

  James Surowiecki

  Diversity, Decision, Judgement

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• Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Achievement

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• From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, People, Perspective

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Psychology, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

  Mario Bunge

  Religious, Ideas, Painful

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans.

  Roger Fouts

  Nature, Animal, Emotional

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