What does "safeguard cognitive process" mean? In this answer by Ronald Cowen, what does "safeguard cognitive process" mean? What is the Pali, or Sanskrit Buddhist term for the term, "safeguard cognitive process"? Could it be panna, or Sampajnana (by which I mean, right discrimination or proper discernment)?
The term seems to be defined in the referenced answer itself:


  It helps for you to know that your mind cannot understand something unless it makes sense to you and your mind cannot do something unless it makes sense to you. You have a very sophisticated intelligent function or mental process that constantly makes sure that what you think, do, or decide actually makes sense. This process can be viewed as a safeguard against errors in learning or against errors in the application of what you have learned.


It's also mentioned in one of the OP's books (How Mindfulness Meditation Works: A Modern Buddhist View):



Bodhicitta is, I think, mostly a Mahayana term.

Amazon's About the Author says,


  Ronald Cowen has practiced mindfulness meditation for 50 years under the direction of the late Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche.


Namgyal Rinpoche is mentioned on Wikipedia (which may concur with Dhammadhatu's assessment: that the teaching may be expressed in terms related to Western psychology).