basic cognitive process
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Cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge (synset 105709891)
is a type of: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation, process - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contentssubtypes:
- 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
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