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COGNITION (Latin cognitio, from cognoscere, to become acquainted with) , in See also:psychology, a See also:term used in its most See also:general sense for all modes of being conscious or aware of an See also:object, whether material or intellectual. It is an ultimate mode of consciousness, strictly the presentation (through sensation or otherwise) of an object to consciousness; in its See also:complete See also:form, however, it seems to involve a See also:judgment, i.e. the separation from other See also:objects of the object presented. The psychological theory of cognition takes for granted the See also:dualism of the mind that knows and the object known; it takes no See also:account of the metaphysical problem as to the possibility of a relation between the ego and the non-ego, but assumes that such a relation does exist. Cognition is therefore distinct from emotion and See also:conation; it has no psychological connexion with feelings of See also:pleasure and See also:pain, nor does it tend as such to issue in See also:action. For the See also:analysis of cognition-reactions see O. Kulpe, Outlines ofPsychology (Eng. trans., 1895), pp. 411 See also:foil. ; E. B. Titchener, Experimental Psychology (1905), ii. 187 foil. On cognition generally, G.

F. Stout's See also:

Analytic Psychology and See also:Manual of Psychology; W. See also:James's Principles of Psychology (189o), i.

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