cognitive-phenomenon

Direction test (Law 9, specific->general): is a cognitive phenomenon a specific kind of cognition? Yes. Cognition's held definition carves the human-constructed category of the set of mental processes (perception, memory, reasoning, problem-solving, attention) - the MAP, not the natural faculty. A cognitive phenomenon is a specific sub-category within that map: the recurring, nameable, measurable regularities the map tracks, not the map as a whole. Pinned sense: cognition as the accepted category/map. No nearer accepted kind exists (no scientific-phenomenon, psychological-phenomenon, or cognitive-process entry is live), so cognition is the nearest kind, and this rung completes the ladder under the specific entries (priming, cognitive-bias, transfer-of-learning) that file against cognitive-phenomenon.

cognitive-bias's accepted definition carves 'a systematic pattern of deviation from rational judgment in decision-making and reasoning' — reproducible, directional, persisting despite motivation to be accurate: a recurring, nameable, measurable regularity of mental operation, each named bias carrying its task battery and operational signature. A bias is a specific kind of cognitive phenomenon — the deviating subclass of named mental-operation regularities. This is not a ladder leap: cognitive-bias's accepted parents (bias, heuristic) do not connect to cognitive-phenomenon — bias is broader than the cognitive, holding statistical children (confounding, selection-bias) that are not patterns of mental operation — so no accepted path derives this relation; it is a direct claim on the cognitive-phenomenon axis, alongside the bias and heuristic parents. Pinned sense: bias as a systematic deviation pattern within cognition. INSTANCE_OF per Law 9.

transfer-of-learning's accepted definition carves 'the educational-psychological phenomenon whereby prior learning in one context alters subsequent learning or performance in a different context' — a recurring, nameable, measurable regularity (near/far transfer; positive/negative transfer with task-battery signatures) that research programs isolate as an object of study. It is not a member of the cognition set — the whole repels the instance, as ruled on the pending edge to the faculty map — and it is not a bias: transfer deviates from no normative model of judgment, it is a generalization regularity. cognitive-phenomenon is its nearest accepted kind: a specific kind of named, measurable pattern of mental operation. Pinned sense: transfer as the measurable cross-context learning regularity. INSTANCE_OF per Law 9, nearest kind per Law 11e.