cognitive process
Brain's information handling
A cognitive process is any mental operation involved in acquiring, processing, or using information.
Thinking, remembering, perceiving, reasoning, and problem-solving are all cognitive processes.
The term appears frequently in psychology and neuroscience: Aging affects various cognitive processes differently.
Reading involves multiple cognitive processes working together.
- sensory inputInformation received through senses
- short-term memoryFleeting cognitive storage
- deductive reasoningDeriving specifics from generalities
- problem solvingAddressing challenges systematically
- decision makingChoosing a course of action
snap judgment · selective attention · self-monitoring · risk assessment · divided attention · reflective thinking · train of thought · thinking cap · metacognition · cost-benefit analysis · encoding · critical thinking · self-regulation · learning curve · sustained attention · syntax · neural plasticity · spatial reasoning
- processesmanufacturing, dissolving, fermentation, subprocess, dilution
- AbhidharmaAbhidhamma Pitaka, Buddhaghosa, dharmas, triads, couplets
- introspectionself-examination, self-reflection, self-awareness, self-analysis, introspection
- brain activitybrain waves, brainwave, brain signal, alpha waves, beta waves
cognitive processreflex
Involuntary stimulus response
bodily function · gag reflex · startle reflex · physiological response · startle response
cognitive processinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
automatic response · reflexive action · gut reaction · conditioned response · instinctive behavior
cognitive processemotional reaction
Psychological response to stimulus
gut feeling · passion · sentiment · feeling · intuition
cognitive, cognition, cognize, cognizance, cognizant, incognito, recognize, recognition, recognizable