An overview of the Study on the cognitive significance of emotional will Factors

An overview of the Study on the cognitive significance of emotional will Factors

Date: 2008/7/24
Keywords: Psychology

An overview of the Study on the cognitive significance of emotional will Factors

Li Xiaoli

School of Political and Religious Affairs

[Zheng Wen]

In recent years, with the rise of Cognitive Subjectivity, philosophical scholars have begun to focus on the role and status of emotions, emotions, and aspirations in human cognitive activities.

Scholars have agreed that, for a long time, we have only paid attention to the role of practice and cognitive factors in the cognitive process, while ignoring the cognitive significance of irrational emotions, Will, and other factors, this not only limits the field of view of Marxist Epistemology, but also hinders the study of cognitive activities, and thus fails to reveal the important points of cognition, such as the Microscopic Mechanism and dynamic mechanism of cognitive development. This is very inconsistent with the trend and prospects of the development of the cognitive theory, and is not in line with the actual situation of the cognitive activities. The emotional will and understanding are unified. Understanding is soluble in the emotional will. Each stage of the cognitive process is subject to the emotional will factor, and each development process is subject to the influence and restriction of the emotional will factor.

I. Status and Role of emotions in cognitive activities

Li Jianhua believes that emotion is an indispensable non-intellectual factor in recognizing the subject structure. The subject's understanding of the external world is always reflected by the subject's emotional experience. Emotion not only cannot be isolated from the cognitive activity process, on the contrary, as an extremely active and important aspect of the main factor in the cognitive structure, it plays three major roles in the cognitive activities: intensification, selection, and internal control.

He Ying believes that, first, the emotion as a person's subjective attitude always has a certain purpose and tendency. It not only understands and evaluates cognitive objects, but also has the function of guiding cognitive subjects to understand existing intentions. With its purpose, emotion sets out the choice of the cognitive subject on the direction of cognition, and sets out the choice of the subject on the cognitive object with its tendency, it specifies the intention of the subject to understand from the subjective attitude of the subject. Second, emotional evaluation, as an internal value scale of cognitive entities, participates in the entire cognitive process. Emotions constantly express the attitude of the subject to the object through the evaluation of the subject to the object, and urge the subject to continuously choose objects that can meet the needs of the subject, in this way, we can constantly change the direction and target of understanding and push forward the development of understanding. Emotional evaluation and intuitive choice constitute a kind of value scale inside the subject, and become a reference for the value of the subject to the object relationship. Third, the fixation and exclusiveness of emotions can always link the emotions of the cognitive subject with the needs, aspirations, and pursuits of the subject, so as to strengthen the motivation. At the same time, emotion also gives the subject great enthusiasm and strength to pursue the goal of understanding, the exclusive nature of emotions makes the cognitive entity indifferent, tired, and excluded from the information irrelevant to the thinking object and the pursuit of the goal. Emotion is the source of willpower. The combination of the two gives the cognitive entity a persistent pursuit of the Cognitive goal, so that the understanding can continue to deepen and develop forward.

Du Li published three articles in zhengming, Jiangxi Province, respectively on perceptual cognition, rational understanding, and the emotional factors in the process of cognitive leap to practice. The main points are: first, emotion is an important consciousness phenomenon evolved based on the emotional reflection of higher animals to adapt to human understanding and transform the world, it is a special form of reflection of the relationship between the human brain and objective reality and the needs of the subject. It is an experience of the attitude formed by the subject to whether the object meets human needs. Second, in the process of understanding, people first formed the intellectual emotions caused by the external stimulation and internal conditions at that time. In the initial stage of understanding, emotion is the inner Information Form of the subject's perceptual cognitive activities. It is an important intermediary between human cognitive evaluation activities and will behaviors, it inspires, selects, and integrates people's feelings, perception, and appearance. Entering the thinking activity is the stage of rational understanding. Emotions play a fundamental role in driving, regulating, and inducing the formation of concepts, judgments, and reasoning. These functions focus on the dual functions of the organization or disaggregation of emotions in the processing of thinking information. Third, in the process of putting understanding into practice, the emotional function is both active and dynamic: on the one hand, it promotes the conversion from the subject's understanding to the Will behavior in various forms, the psychological foundation has been laid for people's creative practical activities. On the other hand, the rational will is used to reverse their emotions and constrain their blindness, so that they cannot go beyond the rational track without limits. Emotion is the intermediate part of the creative transformation of cognitive initiative into practical creativity. human cognition is gradually realized through practical activities under the interaction between emotion and Will. As a special psychological reflection of the contradiction between practice results and existing understandings, emotions can alleviate or intensify conflicts between subjective and objective through their attachment, rejection, and rejection, maintain the progressive process of understanding and the functions that contribute to the leap of understanding.

Ding hengjie believes that emotion, as an important psychological phenomenon, is not a psychological process other than cognitive activities. It is infiltrated with cognitive activities, at the same time, the same psychological process always occurs along with the process of human understanding. Subjective factors, such as emotions, are the internal states of the subject's cognitive activities. They act in complicated forms and affect people's cognitive activities. objects are recognized only through these internal states. The role and influence of emotion on cognition are dual or dual. They have both subjective initiative and creativity, as well as subjective randomness and strangeness, this shows its positive and negative aspects in understanding. Commentators stressed that how to consciously play the positive role of emotion, eliminate its negative interference and impact, and serve the truth. This becomes a more important issue.

Zheng Qinglin pointed out that the role of Emotional Elements on cognition is mainly to provide motivation for cognitive activities, that is, to activate and arouse the cognitive elements and will elements in the subject, so that they are in the working state, mobilize and maintain cognitive and Will elements to process information and form perceptual knowledge and rational understanding.

Xu yuqian analyzed the role of emotions closely related to emotions in cognition, and thought that emotions are the survival status of the subject, and any activity of the subject is always carried out under certain emotional states, this is especially true for recognition activities. The subject recognition activities carried out in the emotional state are inevitably influenced and acted by the subject's emotions. (1) the motivation of the subject's cognition is influenced by enlarging or weakening the Needs of the subject; (2) the choice of the subject's cognition object is influenced by deepening or weakening the emotion and interest of the subject; (3) The cognitive ability of the subject is influenced by the communication between the subject; (4) the cognitive ability of the subject is directly influenced by the cognitive status of the subject.

Ii. Cognitive Status and Role of Will

Yan Shiyuan believes that Will is an important component or subsystem of a person's cognitive activities. It is a collective embodiment of the person's conscious initiative and an important psychological mechanism of the person's cognitive activities. The active role of the will in people's cognitive activities is mainly manifested in three situations: orientation, adjustment and control. Their common nature is the self-adjustment of People's cognitive activities. It constitutes the psychological mechanism of human self-adjustment in cognitive activities, and is the most basic dynamic role of the will in the main cognitive activities.

Yuan Shijun's article puts forward that the recognition activities and the Will activities of the same subject are regarded as two systems. The recognition activities are the recognition behavior systems targeting the external world and self-consciousness, will activity is a control system with the subject's cognitive behavior as the object. The article explains the role of the will in controlling the cognitive process from three aspects: first, the Will strives to promote the strength and excitement of the cognitive process; second, the willpower adjustment overcomes the internal and external interference of the subject so that the cognition can continue to develop. Third, the will self-control ensures that the cognition can achieve the goal of the subject selection. The article points out that, without the power of will, any complicated understanding is impossible.

Zheng Qinglin pointed out that the role of the Will elements in cognitive activities is manifested in the fact that the subject consciously determines the purpose of understanding, and determines its own actions based on the purpose to overcome obstacles to achieve the purpose of understanding. Therefore, the role of the Will on understanding is mainly to regulate the role, including the adjustment of the main external practice operating procedures and the adjustment of internal thinking operating procedures. Without the adjustment of the will, there will be no normal and orderly awareness activities, and the goal of the subject cannot be realized. The strength or weakness of the will, the lasting or short-lived self-control, directly determines the degree of hard work and the control of the cold and hot mood, and thus the effect of understanding the results.

Zhou Yan's article summarizes the role of the will in the formation of practical concepts as follows: The will is the energy in the body's ability to form practical concepts. It directly controls the initiation and suspension of main activities, it adjusts the strength and speed of Activity Energy, controls the duration of the activity, and especially promotes the subject to overcome various difficulties to achieve its own purpose.

Some comrades combine emotion and will to explore the role of the two. Yao Jinchao pointed out that for a long time, academic circles have always believed that the reason for the theory to make a leap in practice is because of the requirements of the theory itself and practice. This certainly has some truth, however, the research on the active role of emotional will factors in the subject structure is neglected, so as to fail to find the energy source of materialized cognition. If feeling and thinking are the conversion from external stimulation to internal consciousness facts and the subject process of the object, then emotion and will are the conversion from internal consciousness facts to external actions, is the object process of the subject. This latter transformation is achieved through the adjustment and control of the direction, mode, intensity, speed, and other aspects of the materialized process of the subject's understanding through emotion and Will, emotional will factors are the source of energy for understanding materialization. He Ying pointed out that the emotional will of a person has a disposition character, which determines that the emotion and the Will will become the motivation to motivate the cognitive entity to persistently pursue truth and overcome difficulties. In the process of understanding, positive emotions are expressed in enthusiasm and passion to stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of the cognitive subjects. Emotion is also the source of understanding the willpower of the subject. The Will adjusts the understanding will of the cognitive subject based on its tough character, so that the subject will persevere in its pursuit of truth.

References:

① Li Jianhua: "The Role of Emotional Factors in cognitive activities"/"Jiangxi social science", 6th, Issue 1.

② Du Li: "the status and role of emotion in thinking", "the initial exploration of Emotional Factors in emotional understanding", "The Role of emotion in recognizing practice"/"contention" 1987, 5th, and 1988, 5th, 4th.

③ Yan Shiyuan: "The Role of the will in the subject's cognitive activities"/"contention" No. 1988 of 3rd.

④ Ding hengjie: On the role and influence of emotion on cognition/Journal of Jilin University, 1987, 6th.

⑤ Zheng Qinglin: the active role of subjective factors in understanding/the Social Science front, Issue 1, 2nd.

6. Yuan Shijun: "The Role of will in cognitive development"/"Modern Philosophy" No. 1987 of 3rd.

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He Ying: The Role of irrational factors in understanding/the 3rd issue of qiushi journal.

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From the political and religious department of Hanzhong Normal University 199410