cognition
mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses
intelligence
mental faculty
reading
cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning; a form of language processing
rumination
persistent thinking that causes worry and distress
hot and cold cognition
hypothesis on motivated reasoning that a person's thinking is influenced by their emotional state in hot cognition, which contrasts with cold cognition when cognitive processing of information is independent of emotional involvement
reflective practice
ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning
social cognition
information processing about social situations
categorization
cognitive process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
cognitive distortion
exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset and perpetuation of psychopathological states
Cognitive shift
brain's response and change due to some external force
situation awareness
perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their future status
animal cognition
intelligence of non-human animals
mental calculation
arithmetical calculations using only the human brain
volition
cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action
number sense
ability to understand or manipulate numbers
distributed cognition
psychologic theory
awareness
state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns
attention
behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information
reality testing
psychotherapeutic function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are reflected on and evaluated by the observer
fall of man
in Christianity, the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience
memorialization
process of preserving memories of people or events
mental disability
impairment in thinking
plant cognition
proposed cognition of plants
epistemic cognition
cognition about knowledge and knowing
cognitive training
program of regular activities purported to maintain or improve one's cognitive abilities
conceptualization
abstract simplified view of some selected part of the world