{"id":7527,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognition\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:50","slug":"cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A generic term involving high level functions such as recognising, concept formation, imagining, judging, problem solving, reasoning, remembering, and thinking. &nbsp;Applied to the social domain (i.e., social cognition),it refers to how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. &nbsp;It is intimately related to perception and difficult to distinguish from it as, for example, when studying attentional processes. &nbsp;Perhaps the first person to use the term &#8216;cognition&#8217; was <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/aquinas\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/aquinas\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St Thomas Aquinas<\/a> (1225-1274) who regarded it as &#8216;how we know the world&#8217; and distinguished it from &#8216;affect&#8217; (feelings; emotions) and conation (the act of willing something). &nbsp;On this basis, cognition as a general concept came to mean psychological processes or functions for acquiring knowledge and understanding the world.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attention\">Attention<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_structures\">Cognitive structures<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_epistemology\">Developmental epistemology<\/a>, <a href=\"perception\">Perception<\/a>, <a href=\"problem_solving\">Problem solving<\/a>, Reasoning (psychology)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generic term involving high level functions such as recognising, concept formation, imagining, judging, problem solving, reasoning, remembering, and thinking. &nbsp;Applied to the social domain (i.e., social cognition),it refers to how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. &nbsp;It is intimately related to perception and difficult to distinguish from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}