COGNITIVE OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognitive operation mean? 

• COGNITIVE OPERATION (noun)
  The noun COGNITIVE OPERATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COGNITIVE OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNITIVE OPERATION (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process

Context example:

the cognitive operation of remembering

Hypernyms ("cognitive operation" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

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

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)