COGNITIVE CONTENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognitive content mean? 

• COGNITIVE CONTENT (noun)
  The noun COGNITIVE CONTENT has 1 sense:

1. the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

  Familiarity information: COGNITIVE CONTENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNITIVE CONTENT (noun)

Meaning:

The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cognitive content; mental object; content

Hypernyms ("cognitive content" is a kind of...):

cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognitive content"):

tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)

disbelief; unbelief (a rejection of belief)

heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)

end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)

acculturation; culture (all the knowledge and values shared by a society)

lore; traditional knowledge (knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote)

ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)

knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular domain or field of knowledge)

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

object (the focus of cognitions or feelings)

food; food for thought; intellectual nourishment (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; universe of discourse (everything stated or assumed in a given discussion)

issue; matter; subject; topic (some situation or event that is thought about)

issue (an important question that is in dispute and must be settled)

idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

center; core; essence; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum (the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience)

wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)

metaknowledge (knowledge about knowledge)