mental process

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mental process - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"cognitive operation, cognitive process, process, operationcognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoningbasic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledgehigher cognitive process - cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to usepsychological science, psychology - the science of mental life