cognitive Definition

of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)

based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge

psychotherapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy by identifying faulty or maladaptive patterns of thinking, emotional response, or behavior and substituting them with desirable patterns of thinking, emotional response, or behavior —abbreviation CBT

psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously

an interdisciplinary science that draws on many fields (such as psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and philosophy) in developing theories about human perception, thinking, and learning

psychotherapy that emphasizes the substitution of desirable patterns of thinking for maladaptive or faulty ones; especially : cognitive behavioral therapy —abbreviation CT