basic cognitive process
- noun
- Specialized
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proceso cognitivo básico
- Attention is one of the basic cognitive processes that influences our ability to focus on tasks.
Examples
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Does culture shape basic cognitive processes?
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Metacognitive control processes include skills that help one regulate basic cognitive processes.
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Her results suggested that the classification of basic cognitive processes needs intensive work before broad clinical reliability can be achieved.
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Metaphors rely on the most basic cognitive process of humans: analogous thinking.
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Basic cognitive processes play a crucial role in how we learn and remember information.
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Perception is a basic cognitive process that helps us interpret the world around us.
Synonyms
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5.0
A process of thinking, learning, and understanding
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4.1
The ability to think, remember, and understand
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4.2
A brain activity like thinking, remembering, or deciding
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4.4
A mental activity such as thinking, remembering, or learning
A mental process that changes information, like thinking or remembering
Antonyms
- Specialized
Thinking that uses what you have learned to reason, plan, or solve problems
How Complex
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1
8.9
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- Specialized
- Specialized
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4.6
2
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'basic' (fundamental) + 'cognitive' (relating to mental processes) + 'process' (a sequence or operation) yields 'a fundamental mental operation', which a learner who knows the constituent words can infer. This adjective+noun+noun structure and the underlying logic are cross-linguistically common, so the phrase is immediately understandable to learners who know the parts.
Etymology
Basic cognitive process comes from a simple image: think of the mind as a building made of small, important parts, where basic means first or simple, cognitive means 'thinking', and process means a set of steps. That's why the phrase refers to the main mental steps, like perception, memory, or attention, that help us learn and understand.