cognitive content


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Noun1.cognitive content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedcognitive content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
tradition - an inherited pattern of thought or action
object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
food for thought, intellectual nourishment, food - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
noumenon, thing-in-itself - the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
universe of discourse, universe - everything stated or assumed in a given discussion
matter, topic, issue, subject - some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
issue - an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"
idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, gist, kernel, nub, meat, core, sum, marrow, heart, center, centre - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
belief - any cognitive content held as true
unbelief, disbelief - a rejection of belief
heresy, unorthodoxy - a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
goal, end - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"
education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"
experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
acculturation, culture - all the knowledge and values shared by a society
lore, traditional knowledge - knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"
ignorance - the lack of knowledge or education
knowledge base, knowledge domain, domain - the content of a particular field of knowledge
metaknowledge - knowledge about knowledge
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Shaikh Nahayan also stressed that the participation of different media platforms, radio, television, digital, and social media, as key to enrichment of ideas and fostering cognitive content of tolerance.
Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, has officially launched the Digital Emirates library project, which he says will be among the most important projects launched by the ministry to encourage electronic dissemination of intellectual and cognitive content.
Dewey had predicted problems the divide would create, and "school reformers have been trying to undo them: the artificial compartmentalization of knowledge, the suppressing of the rich cognitive content of work, and the limiting of intellectual development of students in a vocational course of study" (p.
In the Middle East, most countries including Egypt are still dreaming of a physical education and sports textbook that offers cognitive content appropriate for each grade level or even for each stage of education.
Feist, discusses ways in which insights from experimental lexical semantics may help to delimit meaning and assist the translator in interpreting the cognitive content of the text.
In contrast to one of the longest standing interpretations of Kant's views on cognitive content, which ascribes to Kant a straightforwardly psychologistic understanding of content, and in contrast as well to the more recently influential reading of Kant put forward by McDowell and others, according to which Kant embraces a version of Russellianism, this paper argues that Kant's views on this topic are of a much more Fregean bent than has traditionally been admitted or appreciated.
According to contemporary cognitive formulations, anxiety has its own unique disorder-specific cognitive content that differentiates it from depression.
"This theory does not, however, consider the cognitive content of many emotions", Prof.
As for the characteristics of a role-playing-based online discussion activity, our process analysis and discussion indicate that the students in our role-playing-based activity demonstrated a certain degree of cognitive content structure in their discussions, a certain degree of analysis of different opinions, as well as behavioral patterns of sustained concentration.
In MCT, 'disorder' is therefore conceptualised as a function not of cognitive content of thoughts and beliefs, as in CBT and REBT, but of processes such as preservative thinking, attentional focus, and internal control strategies that are counter-productive and result in patterns of excessive worry or rumination; the approach is focused on helping a client restore flexible control over thinking where cognitive content is purely the material used by these processes.
Without the anchor of cognitive content, emotional responsiveness could not be individuated, gradations of necessary action could not be gauged, continuity in our construction of self could not be maintained.

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