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emce
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emce asked in Social SciencePsychology · 1 decade ago

I am unable to understand the clear meaning of word `COGNITION`.?

I have gone through many dictioneries and encyclopaedeas but could not grasp the exact and clear meanin of the word COGNITION.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    1 The action or faculty of knowing, now spec. including perceiving, conceiving, etc., as opp. to emotion and volition; the acquisition and possession of empirical factual knowledge. LME. b A perception, a sensation, a notion, an intuition.

    COGNIZANCE 4. Chiefly Sc. . cognitional

    noun perception, discernment, understanding, awareness, comprehension, apprehension, enlightenment, insight, intelligence, reason.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Cognitive brain. It's the part of your brain were we hold all of our Standard Operating Procedures, our true and false. Like 2&2 is 4 etc..Drawing from that pool of knowledge/experience is labeled cognition.

  • 1 decade ago

    Cognition refers to the mental activities involved in acquiring and processing information.

  • 5 years ago

    everyone who claimes to be a feminist-no longer individual who only is of a similar opinion with their philosophy-yet a real feminists, is a social aberation. usually void of any information of her place as a woman contained in the grand scheme of issues. i'm a guy. can no longer exchange it and society won't enable me to dodge that expectation that they have got of a guy. SO! i'm "caught" in this place, like it or no longer. yet HOW stupid could i glance attempting to push my way into the conclave of the sisterhood of girls. definite! women folk have HAD and nonetheless do posess particular societal protections basically because of the fact they're women folk. that's the success of the draw. think I have been to take the "i decide on equality consistant with a women folk" strategies-set? could society enable ME choose out of conflict contained in the form of a draft? could they enable me tell the choose "i would be having a headache the week of that capital homicide trial so count sort me out", or enable me on the lifeboat earlier the ladies? i do no longer think of so. So, NO, i do no longer think of they (genuine feminist) do comprehend the hypocrisy of their demands/positions.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Cognition= refers to that power of knoledge, to be able to think about an answer

  • 1 decade ago

    cognition is simply "thinking". The ability to have rational thoughts.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    use of the brain as opposed to the use of the hands and body parts

  • 1 decade ago

    ROFL this was a joke right?

    if not, it means to understand.

  • 1 decade ago

    to know, understand, grasp, comprehend

  • 1 decade ago

    look under cognative as in thought.

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