Psychomotor vs Conation - What's the difference?
psychomotor | conation |
Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under the control of the mind
(philosophy) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
* 1899 , George Frederick Stout, A Manual of Psychology , p. 234:
*1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
*:You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation .
* 1987 , Marshall J. Farr, 'Cognition, Affect, and Motivation: Issues, Directions and Perspectives Toward Unity', in Conative and Affective Process Analysis , p. 347:
As an adjective psychomotor
is of or pertaining to the function of muscles under the control of the mind.As a noun conation is
(philosophy) the power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.psychomotor
English
(Psychomotor learning)Adjective
(-)See also
* sensorimotorconation
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Noun
(wikipedia conation) (en noun)- Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation , when its conditions are only partially repeated...
- [The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully...
