Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.