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Definition of Cognitive operation
1. Noun. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. "The cognitive operation of remembering"
Generic synonyms: Cognition, Knowledge, Noesis
Specialized synonyms: Basic Cognitive Process, Higher Cognitive Process
Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Derivative terms: Operate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognitive Operation
Literary usage of Cognitive operation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"We have seen how the whole significance of the different stages in the cognitive
operation is found in the devices which they represent to further the ..."
2. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"And although any particular ' fact' can always be conceived as having been '
made' by a previous cognitive operation, this latter in its turn will always ..."
3. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton (1854)
"With regard to the last, he thinks it possible, that, in another state, spirits
may be an immediate * Every apprehensive, or strictly cognitive, operation ..."
4. A First Course in Philosophy by John Edward Russell (1913)
"Now in the cognitive operation there is no transcendence of experience, qua
experience, but there is .brought about an altered, improved and more satisfying ..."
5. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"Here is a difficulty, for " although any particular fact can always be conceived
as having been made by a previous cognitive operation, this latter in its ..."
6. Outlines of Sociology by Frank Wilson Blackmar, John Lewis Gillin (1904)
"We have seen how the whole significance of the different stages in the cognitive
operation is found in the devices which they represent to further the ..."
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