Definition of Cognitive process

1. Noun. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. "The cognitive operation of remembering"

Exact synonyms: Cognitive Operation, Mental Process, Operation, Process
Generic synonyms: Cognition, Knowledge, Noesis
Specialized synonyms: Basic Cognitive Process, Higher Cognitive Process
Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Derivative terms: Operate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognitive Process

cognising
cognition
cognition disorder
cognitional
cognitions
cognitive
cognitive content
cognitive disability
cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonance theory
cognitive factor
cognitive laterality quotient
cognitive neuroscience
cognitive neuroscientist
cognitive operation
cognitive process (current term)
cognitive psychology
cognitive reappraisal
cognitive relativism
cognitive science
cognitive sciences
cognitive scientist
cognitive state
cognitive symptoms
cognitive therapy
cognitively
cognitivism
cognitivist
cognizable
cognizably

Literary usage of Cognitive process

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"He deprecates the controversy about "percept" and "concept," calls these "sterile," and bases his whole system on a new and integrating cognitive process ..."

2. Ontology, Or, The Theory of Being; an Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"the cognitive process, or are themselves distinct realities irrespective of this process. That it is possible to carry on successfully, at least to some ..."

3. Philosophy of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of by George Trumbull Ladd (1897)
"Without that varied impulse from feeling, —which does not come simply as an external push that ceases before the movement of the cognitive process begins, ..."

4. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"They are present in the cognitive process. — The activity which directs our ... We too often regard the cognitive process as consisting in the bare relating ..."

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