Noss I.N. Correlation Between the Emotional-Notional and Logical Components of Students' Cognitive Activity

Abstract: In this article Noss analyzes the three components of the cognitive process: logics, semantics and affect. According to the author, the correlation of these elements of reasoning is the key to successful and adequate acquisition and digestion of knowledge. The logical and emotional components are interrelated and there is a complex oppositely directed nonlinear dependence between them which reflects individual features, peculiarities and contents of the stimulus and circumstances of the thinking process. The researcher provides empirical data obtained in different experimental groups and describing patterns of the five stages of human cogitation, peculiarities of the cognitive process and the mutual influence of the operational-logical and emotional-notional components. The methodology of the research is based on the comparison of different aspects of cognitive activity. The researcher uses psychosemantic analysis of cognitive activity and semantic differential as the main means of psychological research. The main conclusion made by the researcher is that the emotional-notional component of cognitive activity appears and develops as part of personal relations between cogitation actors. Having defined the features and genus species features of an object, relations and connections between notions, the conceptual status of an object is described. The emotional aspect of an object of cognition influences the cognitive process, too, as it creates a relevant motivational background which decreases the influence of the operational-logical component when the object has been prescribed a particular place in the system of relations with other objects, thus decreasing the emotional component of cognition as well.   

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