“[A]ll forms of knowing and awareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving. Along with affect and conation, it is one of the three traditionally identified components of mind” (APA, 2024). A person achieves cognitive balance when their cognition avoids the imbalances of either hyperactivity, deficit, and dysfunction, thus allowing them to know the world of experience without omission, projection, or distortion. A person achieves cognitive balance by cultivating and employing their cognitive intelligence.

American Psychological Association. (2024). Cognition. APA Dictionary of Psychology. Retrieved March 25, 2024 from https://dictionary.apa.org/cognition