English > basic cognitive process: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge. |
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| Narrower | apperception | The process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience |
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| attention, attending | The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others |
| believing | The cognitive process that leads to convictions |
| classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting | The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories / categories |
| discrimination, secernment | The cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished |
| inattention | lack of attention |
| intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) |
| learning, acquisition | The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge |
| memory, remembering | The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered |
| perception | The process of perceiving |
| representational process | Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
| Broader | process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity |
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