<P> The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past , likely starting with Thomas Aquinas . Consequently , this description tends to apply to processes such as memory , association , concept formation , pattern recognition , language , attention , perception , action , problem solving and mental imagery . Traditionally , emotion was not thought of as a cognitive process . This division is now regarded as largely artificial , and much research is currently being undertaken to examine the cognitive psychology of emotion ; research also includes one 's awareness of one 's own strategies and methods of cognition called metacognition and includes metamemory . </P>
<P> The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past , likely starting with Thomas Aquinas . Consequently , this description tends to apply to processes such as memory , association , concept formation , pattern recognition , language , attention , perception , action , problem solving and mental imagery . Traditionally , emotion was not thought of as a cognitive process . This division is now regarded as largely artificial , and much research is currently being undertaken to examine the cognitive psychology of emotion ; research also includes one 's awareness of one 's own strategies and methods of cognition called metacognition and includes metamemory . </P>
cognition about ones own cognitive process can be termed as
cognition about ones own cognitive process can be termed as
metacognition
metacognition