Definitions for Cognitive
ˈkɒg nɪ tɪvcog·ni·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

1. cognitiveadjective

   of or being or relating to or involving cognition

   "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. cognitiveadjective

   The part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

2. Etymology: From cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognosco + adjective suffix -ivus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cognitiveadjective

   Having the power of knowing.

   Etymology: from cognitus, Latin.

   Unless the understanding employ and exercise its cognitive or apprehensive power about these terms, there can be no actual apprehension of them. Robert South, Sermons.

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1. cognitive

   Cognitive refers to the mental processes and activities related to acquiring, processing, storing, and using information. It involves various abilities such as perception, attention, memory, reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and language understanding/comprehension. It encompasses the way individuals perceive, understand, and make sense of the world around them, as well as how they think, learn, and remember. Cognitive processes are fundamental to human intelligence and play a crucial role in various aspects of daily life, from simple tasks to complex problem-solving and critical thinking.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Cognitiveadjective

   knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Cognitive

   Of or being or relating to or involving cognition.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Cognitive' in Adjectives Frequency: #916

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cognitive in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cognitive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Cognitive in a Sentence

1. Glenn Levine:

   Often we let our mind quickly react to something before we've truly had time to allow our higher levels of cognitive functioning, our prefrontal cortex, to weigh in, we want to pause, ponder and digest this, and take a couple seconds to decide what is the most skillful way to react.

2. Joanna Steinglass:

   This study was the first to test the hypothesis that the behaviors in anorexia nervosa meet the cognitive neuroscience definition of ‘habit’, we found that while patients with anorexia nervosa make choices about food, they show related activity in the dorsal striatum, whereas healthy individuals do not. This suggests different neural mechanisms are active for these individuals.

3. Elissa Epel:

   It is a perfect storm between changes in environment, loss of social anchors and increases in cognitive stress, and then on top of that, most of us are not getting the quality sleep that we used to.

4. Richard Isaacson:

   In this study, a twofold increase in physical activity was equivalent to about 2.75 fewer years of processing speed aging in women, further, each extra cognitive activity corresponded to 13 fewer years of processing speed aging on average between women and men.

5. Detective Estaban Flores:

   Officers receive enhanced training, focusing on how to identify and assist in situations involving individuals suffering from mental illness and cognitive disabilities.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Cognitive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cognitive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Cognitive
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cognitive
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Cognitive