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cognition - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning |
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knowledge,
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psychological feature a feature of the mental life of a living organism
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nous,
psyche,
brain,
mind,
head common sense; "she has great social nous"
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place an abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"
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general knowledge,
public knowledge knowledge that is available to anyone
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episteme the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
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ability,
power the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
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inability lacking the power to perform
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lexis all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
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mental lexicon,
lexicon,
vocabulary a language user's knowledge of words
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practice a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
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cognitive factor something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
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equivalent the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen
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cognitive operation,
cognitive process,
mental process,
process,
operation a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
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unconscious process,
process a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
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perception the process of perceiving
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structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
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cognitive content,
mental object,
content the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
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information (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
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history the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
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mental attitude,
attitude a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude"
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