Meaning | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. |
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Example | "the cognitive operation of remembering" |
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Synonyms | process, cognitive process, mental process, operation |
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Category | psychology, psychological science | The science of mental life |
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Narrower | basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
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higher cognitive process | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use |
Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis | The psychological result of perception / perception and learning and reasoning |
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Spanish | acto, proceso |
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Catalan | procés |
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