Cognitive operation

Name the kind of mental work involved, not the output: acquiring, persisting, representing, generating, computing, judging, coordinating, acting, or learning. Verbs decide the carrier. Anything requiring judgment or coordination cannot be handed to a script, and a task mixing several verbs usually needs splitting.

Name the kind of mental work involved, not the output: acquiring, persisting, representing, generating, computing, judging, coordinating, acting, or learning. Verbs decide the carrier. Anything requiring judgment or coordination cannot be handed to a script, and a task mixing several verbs usually needs splitting.

Example

"Deal with registrations" splits into four verbs: compute (match 214 payments to signups), persist (one clean attendee record), coordinate (send the caterer a headcount), and judge (decide the three duplicate-name cases). The first three route to software; the judgment stays with you.