Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition: "Thinking in terms of dualisms is common in our cognitive culture” ( Key Reporter).
- adj. Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of cognition; learning; knowing.
- Pertaining to cognition: as, the cognitive faculties.
- n. In grammar, a particular form of root word, expressing recognition or knowledge.
Wiktionary
- adj. The part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or being or relating to or involving cognition
Etymologies
- From Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognosco ("I know") + adjective suffix -ivus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.™”
“The term "cognitive dissonance" was first applied to this stance - in which bare fact cannot undermine strong contrary belief.”
“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.”
“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
“Dude, should the term cognitive dissonance mean anything to us?”
“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.”
“�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.”
“We see what we call cognitive constriction within the clinical field, which is - it's sort of like tunnel vision, an inability to solve problems and to kind of think of options and select a solution that would be optimal.”
“In the late '70s, Ulric Neisser, the pioneering researcher who coined the term cognitive psychology, launched a broad attack on the approach of Ebbinghaus and his scientific kin.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cognitive’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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cuzican's Words
lexicon, tirade, innocuous, apathy, narcissist, subtle, agnostic, plethora, malleable, catalyst, pithy, irate and 116 more...
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betweeness
cognitive, dissonance, connotation, existentialism, interstitial, enigmatic, floater, interrobang, ampersand, intermittent
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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List for Test Day
heresy, reversion, predilection, pedagogy, disparate, virtuous, refurbish, efficaciously, provenance, heckler, amorphous, epitome and 236 more...
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solarider's Words
maelstrom, leviathan, apiology, deconstruction, confluence, minutiae, onomatopoeia, tardy, ad infintum, tocophobia, cuckold, oblique and 110 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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GENERAL
acquiesce, adjunct, affable, alacrity, amiable, anodyne, anachronism, apex, aphorism, arbitrary, arch, archetype and 182 more...
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