Cognitions

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In cognitive psychology, cognitions are the psychological, mental experiences that are the basis of our knowledge about the world and are the content of awareness and consciousness.

Cognitions include:

• Altered states of consciousness
• Attitudes
• Beliefs
• Concepts
• Confusion
• Conceptual imagery
• Consciousness states
• Delusions
• Expectations
• False beliefs
• Fantasies
• Hallucinations
• Ideas
• Imagery
  • Auditory imagery
  • Motor imagery
  • Visual imagery
• Irrational beliefs
• Mental images
• Thoughts

Cognitions are the products the process of cognition and arise as the result of the activity of the large number of cognitive processes that include:

• Apperception
• Attention
• Comprehension
• Decision making
• Judgement
• Memory
• Learning
• Perception
• Reasoning
• Problem solving

See also

Animal cognition Cognitive bias Cognitive dissonance Cognitive linguistics Cognitive measures Cognitive module Cognitive psychology Cognitive science Cognitive space Cognitive style Comparative Cognition Consciousness Embodied cognition Epigenetics in psychology Functional neuroimaging Gestalt psychology Goal orientation

Group cognition Holonomic brain theory Ideasthesia Intentionality List of cognitive scientists Mind Molecular Cellular Cognition Numerical cognition Personal knowledge management Philosophy of mind Piaget's theory of cognitive development Rumination Santiago theory of cognition Schema Self awareness Situated cognition Social cognition Spatial Cognition Theory of cognitive development Theory of mind Thought suppression Wason selection task

Key texts

Books

• Coren, Stanley; Lawrence M. Ward, James T. Enns (1999). Sensation and Perception, Harcourt Brace.
• Lycan, W.G., (ed.). (1999). Mind and Cognition: An Anthology, 2nd Edition. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, Inc.
• Stanovich, Keith (2009). What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, New Haven (CT): Yale University Press.

External links

• Cognition An international journal publishing theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind.
• Information on music cognition, University of Amsterdam
• Cognitie.NL Information on cognition research, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and University of Amsterdam (UvA)
• Emotional and Decision Making Lab, Carnegie Mellon, EDM Lab
• The Limits of Human Cognition - an article describing the evolution of mammals' cognitive abilities
• Half-heard phone conversations reduce cognitive performance
• The limits of intelligence Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 14 June 14, 2011.