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HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("higher cognitive process" is a kind of...):
cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "higher cognitive process"):
search (the examination of alternative hypotheses)
cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought; thought process (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully)
suggestion (the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association)
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
knowing (a clear and certain mental apprehension)
language; linguistic process (the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication)
