cognition
51cognition — n. 1 Philos. knowing, perceiving, or conceiving as an act or faculty distinct from emotion and volition. 2 a result of this; a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition. Derivatives: cognitional adj. cognitive adj. Etymology: L cognitio (as CO …
52Situated cognition — describes a perspective of human cognition that asserts learning happens as human beings interact with the living world. Also referred to as the situativity theory of cognition (Greeno, 1998), it is a theory of thinking as mainly on the fly and… …
53Cultural cognition — The Cultural cognition of risk, sometimes called simply cultural cognition, refers to the hypothesized tendency of persons to form perceptions of risk and related facts that cohere with their self defining values. Research examining this… …
54Socially Distributed Cognition — Distributed cognition is a psychological theory developed in the mid 1980s by Edwin Hutchins. Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky (cf. cultural historical psychology) it emphasizes the social aspects… …
55Need for cognition — The need for cognition, in psychology, is a personality variable reflecting the extent to which people engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activities.[1][2] An individual’s innate need for cognition, a concept defined as “a need to structure… …
56Group cognition — The concept of group cognition Group cognition is a social, largely linguistic phenomenon whereby a small group of people produce a sequence of utterances that performs a cognitive act. That is, if a similar sequence was uttered or thought by an… …
57Distributed cognition — is a theory of psychology developed in the mid 1980s by Edwin Hutchins. Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky (cf activity theory) it emphasizes the social aspects of cognition. It is a framework (not a… …
58Animal cognition — is the title given to the study of the mental capacities of non human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology, but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology. The …
59Music cognition — is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mental processes that support musical behaviors, including perception, comprehension, memory, attention, and performance. Originally arising in fields of psychoacoustics and sensation,… …
60Computational cognition — is the study of the computational basis of learning and inference by mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and behavioral experiments, seeking to learn the basis behind the processing of information. Contents 1 Propositions 1.1 Theory of… …
