Cognitive Psychology

🇨🇭Jean Piaget

Philosophy

1896–1980

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

🇺🇸Daniel Kahneman

Psychology

1934–2024

"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

🇺🇸Aaron Beck

Psychology

1921–2021

"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions."

🇺🇸Roger Shepard

Science

1929–2022

"We generalize from one situation to another not because we cannot tell the difference between the two situations but because we judge that they are likely to belong to a set of situations having the same consequence."

🇨🇦Albert Bandura

Psychology

1925–2021

"If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do."