Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition.
- adjective Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a particular form of a root word, expressing recognition or knowledge.
- Capable of cognition; learning; knowing.
- Pertaining to cognition: as, the cognitive faculties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective The part of mental functions that deals with
logic , as opposed toaffective which deals withemotions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or being or relating to or involving cognition
Etymologies
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Examples
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British cognitive psychologist Ros Crawley comments: "The idea that women become forgetful and absentminded during pregnancy has become a stereotype in our society, but my own studies have found very little difference in cognitive function between women who are or are not pregnant."
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British cognitive psychologist Ros Crawley comments: "The idea that women become forgetful and absentminded during pregnancy has become a stereotype in our society, but my own studies have found very little difference in cognitive function between women who are or are not pregnant."
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Though Freud's waning prestige has weakened tendencies to assume that he had somehow demonstrated the reality of unconscious intentionality, the rise of cognitive science has created a new climate of educated opinion that also takes elaborate non-conscious mental machinations for granted ” the ˜cognitive unconscious.™
Consciousness and Intentionality Siewert, Charles 2006
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The term "cognitive dissonance" was first applied to this stance - in which bare fact cannot undermine strong contrary belief.
Thestar.com - Home Page Tristan Sturm 2011
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It was he who, back in the 1970s, coined the term "cognitive neuroscience"—with colleague George Miller—in the back seat of a New York taxi.
Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011
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The term cognitive dysfunction covers the entire range of mental faculties from memory to abstract thinking and judgment.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Disturbing News for Patients and Shock Doctors Alike 2008
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Dude, should the term cognitive dissonance mean anything to us?
Is This Heaven? 2007
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This is where the term cognitive dissonance has the possibity to fall flat on its face - at least when the concept is misused deliberately or accidentally as is the case when trying to apply cognitive dissonance to the subject of Man-made global warming.
marklynas.org - home 2010
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�He says these findings fit with what researchers have theorized for a while now - mentally engaged people build up what he calls a cognitive reserve that may help them compensate when the initial damage of Alzheimer's - including a buildup of plaques and tangles in the brain - start to develop.
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�He says these findings fit with what researchers have theorized for a while now - mentally engaged people build up what he calls a cognitive reserve that may help them compensate when the initial damage of Alzheimer's - including a buildup of plaques and tangles in the brain - start to develop.
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Those whose brains remain nimble and active seem better able to tolerate the deterioration of dementia without any obvious loss of faculties, a concept known as “cognitive reserve”.
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