COGNITIVE PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognitive process mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNITIVE PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

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 process" 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 process"):

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)

 Context examples 

Interference or disruption of cognitive processes.

(Cognitive Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)

Simulating others’ decisions is a sophisticated cognitive process that is rooted in social learning.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)