basic cognitive process

Definitions of basic cognitive process

1. noun

   cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge
   types:

   attending, attention

   the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

   inattention

   lack of attention

   intuition

   instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

   perception

   the process of perceiving

   apperception

   the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience

   believing

   the cognitive process that leads to convictions

   categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting

   the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

   discrimination, secernment

   the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

   acquisition, learning

   the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

   memory, remembering

   the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered

   representational process

   any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else

   coordination

   being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree

   attentiveness, heed, paying attention, regard

   paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

   clock-watching

   paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)

   ear

   attention to what is said

   eye

   attention to what is seen

   notice, observance, observation

   the act of noticing or paying attention

   notice

   polite or favorable attention

   heedlessness, inattentiveness

   a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)

   distraction

   an obstacle to attention

   disregard, neglect

   lack of attention and due care

   feeling, intuitive feeling

   an intuitive understanding of something

   gnosis

   intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics

   insight, sixth sense

   grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

   immediacy, immediate apprehension

   immediate intuitive awareness

   constancy, perceptual constancy

   (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

   detection, sensing

   the perception that something has occurred or some state exists

   beholding, seeing, visual perception

   perception by means of the eyes

   auditory perception, sound perception

   the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon

   aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression

   an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

   somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia

   the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

   feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation

   the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

   doublethink

   believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

   appraisal, assessment

   the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

   ascription, attribution

   assigning to a cause or source

   ascription, attribution

   assigning some quality or character to a person or thing

   cross-classification, cross-division

   classification according to more than one attribute at the same time

   subsumption

   incorporating something under a more general category

   differentiation, distinction

   a discrimination between things as different and distinct

   individualisation, individualization, individuation

   discriminating the individual from the generic group or species

   appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste

   delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)

   conditioning

   a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

   developmental learning

   learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development

   digestion

   learning and coming to understand ideas and information

   education

   the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

   incorporation, internalisation, internalization

   learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself

   imprinting

   a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established

   language learning

   learning to use a language

   committal to memory, memorisation, memorization

   learning so as to be able to remember verbatim

   study, work

   applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

   carry-over, transfer, transfer of training

   application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

   STM, immediate memory, short-term memory

   what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

   working memory

   memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking

   LTM, long-term memory

   your general store of remembered information

   retrieval

   the mental process of accessing information stored in one's memory

   recall, recollection, reminiscence

   the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

   identification, recognition

   the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

   association, connection, connexion

   the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

   retrospection

   memory for experiences that are past

   symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization

   something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible

   exemplification, typification

   a representational or typifying form or model

   depicting, depiction, portrayal, portraying

   a representation by picture or portraiture

   anthropomorphism, theanthropism

   the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits

   imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

   inspiration

   a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem

   type of:

   cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation, process

   (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents