What is cognition?

Cognition refers to the process by which people obtain knowledge or apply knowledge, or the process of information processing. This is the most basic psychological process of human beings.

It includes feeling, perception, memory, thinking, imagination and language.

The human brain receives information input from the outside world, processes it, and converts it into internal psychological activities, which then controls human behavior. This process is the process of information processing, that is, the cognitive process.

People can not only directly perceive individual and specific things and understand the superficial connections and relationships of things, but can also use the existing knowledge and experience in the mind to understand things indirectly and generally, revealing the essence of things and their inner connections and laws.

Forming concepts about things, making reasoning and judgments, and solving various problems we face, this is thinking.

Extended information Herbert Simon believes that there are three basic processes of human cognition: (1) Problem solving: using heuristics, means-end analysis and planning process methods.

(2) Pattern recognition ability: If people want to establish patterns of things, they must understand the relationship between various elements.

Such as equality relationship, continuity relationship, etc.

Patterns can be formed based on the relationships between elements.

(3) Learning: Learning is to obtain information and store it for later use.

Learning comes in different forms, such as discrimination learning, reading, comprehension, example learning, etc.