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S: (n) sort, sorting (an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion) "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
S: (n) classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

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

S: (n) attention, attending (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)
S: (n) inattention (lack of attention)
S: (n) intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))
S: (n) perception (the process of perceiving)
S: (n) apperception (the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience)
S: (n) believing (the cognitive process that leads to convictions) "seeing is believing"
S: (n) classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)
S: (n) discrimination, secernment (the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished)
S: (n) learning, acquisition (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge) "the child's acquisition of language"
S: (n) memory, remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered) "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
S: (n) representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)

S: (v) screen, screen out, sieve, sort (examine in order to test suitability) "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
S: (v) classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate (arrange or order by classes or categories) "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"