cognitive process
perception
organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment in the brain
reason
the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information
analogy
inference or argument from one particular to another particular
insanity
abnormal mental or behavioral patterns
attribution
process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events
synthesis
cognitive skill in Bloom's taxonomy
ideation
creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, comprising all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization
ritualism
attachment and dogmatic adherence to normative conduct
thought
mental activity involving an individual's subjective consciousness
dream
series of images, thoughts, and emotions, often with a story-like quality, generated by mental activity during sleep; the state in which this occurs
introspection
process of examining one's own thoughts and feelings, that is closely related to human self-reflection and self-discovery
mentalization
term in psychology
Vection
illusion of perception
recollection
mental reexperience of past events and experiences from a psychological point of view
spontaneous recovery
(in classical (Pavlovian) conditioning) phenomenon of learning and memory; re-emergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a delay; such a recovery of "lost" behaviors can be observed within a variety of domains
pattern recognition
cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory
mathematical thinking
cognitive process
imagination
mental ability to produce and simulate novel objects, people and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses
mental rotation
rotation of an object mentally
elaboration
psychological process
paraphrasing
cognitive process in the empirical social sciences such as pedagogy
Engaged Spirituality
form of Spirituality
concretization
cognitive process consisting in the application of an abstract concept to a specific situation
withdrawal
mental process
memory
mental faculties and processes involved in storing and retrieving information
mood
relatively long lasting emotional, internal and subjective state
abstraction
conceptual process where general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples
body schema
postural model that keeps track of limb position
cognition
mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses
Thrill
ambiguous emotional experience
innovativeness
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understanding
process of acquiring apprehension of a concept
visualisation
mental image for stimulation
recall
retrieval of events or information from the past
face perception
cognitive process of visually interpreting the human face
volition
cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action
appropriation of knowledge
process of constructing knowledge from social and cultural sources and integrating it into pre-existing schemas; educational psychology concept
Automatic and Controlled Processes
the two categories of cognitive processing
decision making
cognitive process to choose a course of action or belief
Higher nervous activity
term referring to the highest level of integrative function of the brain, centered in the cerebral cortex
memorization
conscious cognitive process of creating complete memories of certain information
daydream
short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy
attention
behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information
abstraction
the formation of general ideas or concepts by extracting similarities from particular instances
scientific cognition
form of cognitive process