BharatNotes Cognition
nounUsage in a UPSC answer
Effective civic education must engage not only the citizen's emotions but also their cognition, equipping people to weigh competing claims, detect disinformation and arrive at reasoned democratic judgements.
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Word Family
cognition (n), cognitive (adj), cognitively (adv), cognize (v), cognizant (adj), cognizance (n)
Root
Latin co- = together + gnoscere = to know (PIE gneh- = to know) → cognoscere → cognitio = knowledge
Etymology
From Latin cognitio ("knowledge, perception"), from cognoscere ("to learn, to know"), combining co- ("together") + gnoscere ("to know"), from the Proto-Indo-European root gneh- ("to know"); entered English via Middle English cognicion in the 15th century.
Memory Hook
Think of "re-COGNISE": to re-cognise is to know again, so COGNITION is the act of knowing. The Latin root 'cognoscere' (to know) also sits inside "incognito" (un-known).
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