Glossary C
Glossary C
Cognitive development refers to age-related changes that occur in mental activities, such as attending, perceiving, learning, thinking, and remembering.
Cognitive disorders refer to disorcers such as Dementia, Delirium, or Amnesia characterized by impairments in Cognition, such as deficits in memory, language, or planning and caused by a medical condition or by substance intoxication or withdrawal
Deutsch: Kognitive Dissonanz / Español: Disonancia Cognitiva / Português: Dissonância Cognitiva / Français: Dissonance Cognitive / Italiano: Disonanza Cognitiva
The theory of Cognitive Dissonance, pioneered by Leon Festinger, is one of the most influential concepts in social psychology. It explains the inherent human motivation to resolve powerful internal inconsistencies between one's beliefs, attitudes, and actions.
Cognitive dissonance theory refers to a model proposed by Leon Festinger, which states that awareness of consonant cognitions makes humans feel good, whereas awareness of dissonant cognitions makes humans feel bad.
Deutsch: Kognitive Verzerrung / Español: Distorsión Cognitiva / Português: Distorção Cognitiva / Français: Distorsion Cognitive / Italiano: Distorsione Cognitiva
Cognitive distortions refer to systematic errors in reasoning, often stemming from early childhood errors in reasoning; an indication of inaccurate or ineffective information processing. Cognitive distortions also refer to the errors that depressed people make in the way they draw conclusions from their experiences.
These distortions often reinforce negative emotions and maladaptive behaviours, contributing to mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Cognitive economy refers to a principle of hierarchical semantic networks such that properties and facts about a node are stored at the highest level possible. For example, the fact "is alive” would be stored with the node for "animal” rather than stored with each node under animal, such as "dog,” "cat,” and the like; a characteristic of semantic memory in which information is only represented once within a semantic network.