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Mental functions and cognitive process
Process

Process may refer to:Biology*Process , a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body* Biological processScience and technnology*Process , a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs...
es are terms often used interchangeably (although not always correctly so, the term cognitive tends to have specific implications - see cognitive and cognitivism
Cognitivism

The word cognitivism is used in several ways:* In ethics, cognitivism is the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions, and hence are capable of being true or false....
) to mean such functions or processes as perception
Perception

In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sense information. It is a task far more complex than was imagined in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was predicted that building perceiving machines would take about a decade, a goal which is still very far from fruition....
, introspection
Introspection

Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, Motivation and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul....
, memory
Memory

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of mnemonic....
, creativity
Creativity

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts....
, imagination
Imagination

Imagination is the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and the action or process of forming such images or concepts....
, conception, belief
Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
, reasoning
Reasoning

Reasoning is the Cognition process of looking for reasons for beliefs, conclusions, actions or feelings. Although reasoning was once thought to be a uniquely human capability, other animals also engage in Animal_cognition#Reasoning_and_problem_solving....
, volition
Volition

Volition can mean:*Volition *Volition *Volition, Inc., a video game developer*Volition Records, a record label...
, and emotion
Emotion

An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
 — in other words, all the different things that we can do with our mind
Mind

Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, free will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes....
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A specific instance of engaging in a cognitive process is a mental event
Mental event

A mental event is a particular occurrence of something going on in the mind or mind substitute. It can be a thought, a dream, a feeling, a realization, or any other mental activity....
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Mental functions and cognitive process
Process

Process may refer to:Biology*Process , a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body* Biological processScience and technnology*Process , a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs...
es are terms often used interchangeably (although not always correctly so, the term cognitive tends to have specific implications - see cognitive and cognitivism
Cognitivism

The word cognitivism is used in several ways:* In ethics, cognitivism is the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions, and hence are capable of being true or false....
) to mean such functions or processes as perception
Perception

In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sense information. It is a task far more complex than was imagined in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was predicted that building perceiving machines would take about a decade, a goal which is still very far from fruition....
, introspection
Introspection

Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, Motivation and sensations. It is a conscious mental and usually purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul....
, memory
Memory

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of mnemonic....
, creativity
Creativity

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts....
, imagination
Imagination

Imagination is the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and the action or process of forming such images or concepts....
, conception, belief
Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
, reasoning
Reasoning

Reasoning is the Cognition process of looking for reasons for beliefs, conclusions, actions or feelings. Although reasoning was once thought to be a uniquely human capability, other animals also engage in Animal_cognition#Reasoning_and_problem_solving....
, volition
Volition

Volition can mean:*Volition *Volition *Volition, Inc., a video game developer*Volition Records, a record label...
, and emotion
Emotion

An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view....
 — in other words, all the different things that we can do with our mind
Mind

Mind refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, free will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes....
s.

A specific instance of engaging in a cognitive process is a mental event
Mental event

A mental event is a particular occurrence of something going on in the mind or mind substitute. It can be a thought, a dream, a feeling, a realization, or any other mental activity....
. The event of perceiving something is, of course, different from the entire process, or faculty, of perception — one's ability to perceive things. In other words, an instance of perceiving is different from the ability that makes those instances possible.

See also

  • cognitive
  • cognitivism
    Cognitivism

    The word cognitivism is used in several ways:* In ethics, cognitivism is the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions, and hence are capable of being true or false....
  • neurocognitive
    Neurocognitive

    Neurocognitive is a term used to describe cognitive functions closely linked to the function of particular areas, neural pathways, or Cerebral cortex networks in the brain....
  • mental event
    Mental event

    A mental event is a particular occurrence of something going on in the mind or mind substitute. It can be a thought, a dream, a feeling, a realization, or any other mental activity....