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cognitive process
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cognitive process
n.
(Psychology) cognition , mental process, process of knowing, performance of some compound cognitive activity; operation that influences mental contents
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Cognition
Cognition is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
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cognitive process
Noun
1. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
(synonym) process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
(hypernym) cognition, knowledge, noesis
(hyponym) basic cognitive process
(classification) psychology, psychological science
