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COGNITIVE OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
Example:
the cognitive operation of remembering
Synonyms:
cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
