cognitive process vs cognition

cognitive process and cognition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cognitive process	Yes	No	No	No
cognition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cognition is a hypernym of cognitive process; that is, cognition is a word with a broader meaning than cognitive process:

cognitive process: (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Other hypernyms of cognitive process include knowledge, noesis.

cognitive process (noun)	cognition (noun)
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents	the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning