mental process

Questions about mental process

What does mental process mean?

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

What is another word for mental process?

Close synonyms include process, cognitive 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 mental process a common word?

mental 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.