BASIC COGNITIVE PROCESS

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Meaning:

Cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("basic cognitive process" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basic cognitive process"):

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)