Cognition encompasses psychological activities like perception, thinking, language processing, and memory. Cognitions are mental activities that deal with knowledge. They encompass psychological processes that acquire, store, retrieve, transform, or otherwise use information./90797751-56a7964d5f9b58b7d0ebf14c.jpg)
'Cognitive' refers to all the mental processes involved in learning, remembering, and using knowledge. Learn more about how these cognitive processes work.
Cognitive psychologists assume that mental processes are not random but are organized and structured in specific ways. They seek to identify the underlying cognitive structures and processes that enable people to perceive, remember, and think.