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

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

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.

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

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

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.

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