Cognitive Theory

Cognitive theory may refer to:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Cognitive science
  • Theory of cognitive development, Jean Piaget's theory of development and the theories which spawned from it
  • Two factor theory of emotion, another cognitive theory

Famous quotes containing the words cognitive and/or theory:

    “Realism holds that things known may continue to exist unaltered when they are not known, or that things may pass in and out of the cognitive relation without prejudice to their reality, or that the existence of a thing is not correlated with or dependent upon the fact that anybody experiences it, perceives it, conceives it, or is in any way aware of it.”
    —William Pepperell Montague (1842–1910)

    “The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)