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Cognition






   Cognition is the scientific term for "the process of thought". In psychology and cognitive science, it usually refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions.



  The term cognition (Latin: cognoscere, "to know", "to conceptualize" or "to recognize") refers to a faculty for the processing of information, applying knowledge, and changing preferences. Cognition, or cognitive processes, can be natural or artificial, conscious or unconscious.



Cognition is the capability of solving a problem using your mind.





  In social cognition, face perception in human babies emerges by the age of two months. This is in turn affected by the risk or cost of providing these, for instance, those associated with a playground or swimming pool or field trip.



  The Santiago Theory of Cognition is the ability of adaption in a certain environment. Knowledge of a certain domain is adapted to that domain; problems, entities and procedures are tweaked within that domain. Cognition emerges as a result of continuous interaction between a system and its environment. This triggers bilateral perturbations or problems. From them are found solutions, the system 'adapted'' to the environment, problems confronted for survival.



  Psychic capital is a term first used by Kenneth E. Boulding. Capital is an accumulation of wealth, and psychic capital is the accumulation of desirable mental states, which admittedly are highly transitory in nature. The mental states could be memories of pleasure, success, achievement, and recognition. The desire to add to psychic capital can be a powerful motivating force. Exchanges involving increases or decreases of psychic capital are likely to occur at any time, either through decision or through a turn of events.

 
  However, failure in a task could also lead to a depletion of psychic capital. An accumulation of negative memories of failures, disasters, atrocities or perceived injustices and indignities could be called psychic capital, in a negative nature.





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