In everyday conversation, when people make reference to paying attention, planning, forgetting, guessing, daydreaming and so on, they are invoking:
References to paying attention, planning, forgetting, guessing and daydreaming invoke cognitive concepts.
These name inner mental processes of perception, memory and thinking that everyday talk assumes.
Propaganda means the deliberate spreading of biased ideas to shape opinion, a persuasion tactic, not a mental process.
Misinformation means false content shared without intent to deceive, a matter of accuracy rather than cognition.
Disinformation means falsehood spread deliberately to mislead, again about message truth, not mental activity.
The listed acts of attending, planning and remembering all belong to the mind's information processing.
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