Definition of "cognitive" []

• Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition: "Thinking in terms of dualisms is common in our cognitive culture” ( Key Reporter). (adjective)
• Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge. (adjective)

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• "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."