MENTAL PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental process mean? 

• MENTAL PROCESS (noun)
  The noun MENTAL PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

  Familiarity information: MENTAL PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process

Context example:

the cognitive operation of remembering

Hypernyms ("mental process" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental process"):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

higher cognitive process (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)

 Context examples 

It is their ignorance, of course, that makes them believe such rot—their ignorance, which is nothing more nor less than the henidical mental process described by Weininger.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study set out to determine whether inner speech — an internal mental process — elicits a similar efference-copy as the one associated with the production of spoken words.

(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, being aware of surroundings, and using judgment.

(Cognition, NCI Dictionary)

The mental process of knowing, thinking, learning and judging; the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.

(Cognition, NCI Thesaurus)

The conscious tendency to act, usually an aspect of mental process.

(Conation, NCI Thesaurus)

His nerve processed and mental processes were slower than hers.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A set of mental processes that controls and manages the cognitive functions.

(Executive Function, NCI Thesaurus)

I knew these men and their mental processes, was one of them myself, living the seal-hunting life, eating the seal-hunting fare, thinking, largely, the seal-hunting thoughts.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of feeling detached from one's self (either one's body or one's mental processes), although the sufferer remains aware that this is only a feeling and does not represent reality.

(Depersonalization Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)