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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

process, operation, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation go
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity

basic cognitive process
cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge

noun.cognition

11 Subcategories

attention, attending go
the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
inattention go
lack of attention
intuition go
instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
perception go
the process of perceiving
apperception go
the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
believing go
the cognitive process that leads to convictions
categorization, categorisation, classification, sorting go
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
discrimination, secernment go
the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
acquisition, learning go
the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
memory, remembering go
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
representational process go
any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else