Cognitive is an expression that is related to the knowledge acquisition process (cognition). Cognition involves different factors such as thinking, language, perception, memory, reasoning etc., which are part of intellectual development.
Cognitive psychology is linked to the study of mental processes that influence each individual's behavior and cognitive (intellectual) development. According to the Swiss epistemologist and thinker Jean Piaget, intellectual activity is linked to the functioning of the organism itself, to the biological development of each person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy consists of a line of psychotherapy that includes aspects of cognitive and behavioral therapy.
This therapy usually has a short duration, between three to six months and aims to help the patient to find new strategies to face their problems. It helps to understand that feelings are triggered by thoughts and enables the patient to reinterpret their thoughts in a more constructive way.
Piaget's Cognitive Theory
The cognitive theory created by Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who had a great impact on Education, argues that the construction of each human being is a process that takes place throughout the development of the kid. The process is divided into four phases:
- Sensory-motor (0 - 2 years)
- Preoperative (2 - 7 years)
- Operative-concrete (8 - 11 years)
- Formal operative (from 12 years old to 16 years old, on average)
Cognitive therapy is an area of study on the influence of thinking on individual behavior. The combination of the two concepts led to the creation of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), applied to psychotherapy.
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