cognitive process

Questions about cognitive process

What does cognitive process mean?

cognitive process means "(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents".

What is another word for cognitive process?

Close synonyms include process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cognitive process a common word?

cognitive process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.