The cognitive perspective emphasizes the importance of human thought processes such as attending, remembrance, expectations, problem-solving, fantasizing, and conscious mind. The perspective has widely been used in the field of psychology, especially in clinical treatments of psychological disorders of the mind. There are numerous criticisms of this perspective, and they include the following.
Although it may serve cognitive theorists right to assert that difficult tasks have the potential to produce more perfect results compared to “easy do tasks,” the question of lack of empirical evidence to support this perspective renders it almost redundant. Studies in work environments have not given proof that difficult tasks have yielded better performance.