1) Will
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Conation is a term that stems from the Latin conatus, meaning any natural tendency, impulse, striving, or directed effort. Conative is one of three parts of the mind, along with the affective and cognitive. In short, the cognitive part of the brain measures intelligence, the affective deals with emotions and the conative drives how one acts on tho...
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mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose
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• (n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
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The conscious tendency to act, usually an aspect of mental process; historically aligned with cognition and affection, but more recently used in the wider sense of impulse, desire, purposeful striving. ... Origin: L. Conatio, an undertaking, effort ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(ko-na´shәn) in psychology, the power that motivates effort of any kind; the conscious tendency to act.
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Co·na'tion noun [ Latin
conatio .]
(Philos.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. « Of
conation , in other words, of desire and will.
J. S. Mill. »
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kō-nā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The conscious tendency to act, usually an aspect of mental process; historically aligned with cognition and affection, but more recently used in the wider sense of impulse, desire, purposeful striving.
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In psychology, conation is a term used by Sir William Hamilton to designate one of the three great divisions of the mind, the other two being cognition and feeling. As used by him it included the mental states of desire and volition alone; but modern writers make the term broad enough to include every state of mental change, so that we find conatio...
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(Lat. conatio, attempt) Referring to voluntary activity. -- V.F.
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the part of mental life having to do with striving, including desire and volition.
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