What's the difference between conation and connation?

Conation


Definition:

  • (n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attempts to explain the etiology of this condition included "fusion across the midline", "conation" and "double tooth".
  • (2) When clusters of clinical items were correlated with the maximal nocturnal melatonin levels, significant negative regressions were found for items interpreted as retardation symptoms, especially those related to emotional or conative functions.
  • (3) Drawing on our synthetic model of wisdom, we claim wisdom occurs in personality, cognition, and conation that transforms intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal experience.
  • (4) This paper examines the classical functions of the psyche--cognition, affection and conation--from a phenomenological viewpoint and finds them to be defined each in terms of the other.
  • (5) The established relationship between motoric and cognitive aspects of functional brain asymmetry, found in neurological and normal populations, suggests that the leftward tendency of schizophrenics may be manifested in cognitive and conative functions as well.
  • (6) Conatal toxoplasmosis was confirmed by histologic and microbiologic studies of the placenta and membranes.
  • (7) A scale was designed to measure the affective, cognitive, and conative components of teen-agers' attitudes toward the use of alcohol.
  • (8) Higher levels of instructional goals -- cognitive, affective and conative -- are resulting in education of the whole individual.
  • (9) A conception of design is proposed that displays an appropriate role for conation, drive, or intent in any designed research.
  • (10) This paper draws on empirical and theoretical studies to argue that popular and professional conceptions of mental illness share specific traits with ethnic stereotypes: (1) they are exaggerated and serve to erect a qualitative boundary where none objectively exists: (2) they are maintained through selective perception, rationalization, and sanctions; (3) they help to erect the "thresholds,' i.e., the criteria, for crossing or recrossing the boundary; (4) they serve to define relations, including those of power, between groups; (5) because they perform these important cognitive and conative functions, they persist despite a flow of personnel across them and despite repeated demonstrations of their inaccuracy.
  • (11) Yet, both cognitive and conative characteristics lend themselves to improvement by positively altering parental behavior through psychotherapy, or better yet, by widespread open recognition of the importance and the intricacies of child rearing which has been almost totally left to parental whims and folklore The available basic knowledge needs to be used as a foundation for high school and college cources aimed at upgrading child rearing practies.
  • (12) These phenomena suggest that the psychological factors in CNV are the increase of mental load which is synthetically composed of expectancy, conation, motivation, orientation, attention and arousal, etc., while engaging in an identical task.
  • (13) Major attention is paid to severe conative and affective disturbances, ascribed to object or spirit intrument by a traditional "witchdoctor".
  • (14) In the absence of conclusive empirical evidence and cogent theories, we present a prima facie case against early adolescent drug use by defending six propositions which posit specific cognitive, conative, and affective negative consequences including impairment of attention and memory; developmental lag imposing categorical limitations on the level of maximum functioning available to the user in cognitive, moral and psychosocial domains; amotivational syndrome; consolidation of diffuse or negative identity; and social alienation and estrangement.
  • (15) It can be used to obtain empirical data on the following types of variables: a) frequency and patterning of daily activity, social interaction, and changes in location; b) frequency, intensity, and patterning of psychological states, i.e., emotional, cognitive, and conative dimensions of experience; c) frequency and patterning of thoughts, including quality and intensity of thought disturbance.
  • (16) On the other hand, no difference was found as regards depressive ideas, intellectual, conative or emotional inhibition or psychomotoric retardation.
  • (17) A conception of design is proposed that displays the role of conation, drive, or intent in any designed research.

Connation


Definition:

  • (n.) Connection by birth; natural union.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus it discards the various false oppositions between "body-perception" and "object-perception"; and between cognition, affectivity and connation.
  • (2) The newborn (after performance of Caesarean section) was infected connatally.
  • (3) Our experience with 12 infants of connatal periventricular pseudocysts provides the basis of this study.
  • (4) The authors report a premature achondroplastic child with connatal neuroblastoma.
  • (5) They belonged to different pathological entities: focal paraventricular pseudocysts (5 cases), periventricular leukomalasia (6 cases), polycystic encephalomalacia (1 case), subependymal pseudocyst (9 cases), connatal viral infection (3 cases), and chromosomal abnormality (1 case).
  • (6) Two brothers with symptoms of connate ophthalmic lymphatic oedema are reported.
  • (7) Ten of them had suffered from birth asphyxia or connatal infection.
  • (8) Describing the course of illness of six newborn infants suffering from connatal respectively postnatal acquired cytomegalovirus infection most important problems of this disease during neonatal period are discussed.
  • (9) This term should thus only be used--if at all--in cases where the laughter, together with a change in the level of consciousness, has over a period of years constantly been the only symptom of an attack, expecially when these attacks first became manifest in earliest childhood and are due to connatal changes in the hypothalamus-thalamic region.
  • (10) This paper tries to differentiate the clinical features of the connatal and classical types of PMD.
  • (11) The 17 reported patients with connatal Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease are summarized.
  • (12) We, therefore, conducted a prevalence study of the most common connatal infections.
  • (13) The most important problem for public health associated with CMV are connatal and perinatal CMV infections.
  • (14) The test can be a precious diagnostic tool since, beside allowing to decide the recovery from the disease from an immunological point, finds further applications in the connatal and neurological lues.
  • (15) The authors describe an original case of connatal neuroblastoma (stage IV-S), observed at birth, for the presence of subcutaneous nodules, in rapid expansion.
  • (16) Three cases are reported, representing the connatal and classical forms of the disease.
  • (17) By means of 80 cases of connatal infections a fetal tachycardia will be observed without distinct relation to a fetal distress in 51.3% (in comparing to a fetal tachycardia in 19.5% without infection).
  • (18) We concluded that congenital-infantile esotropia is not connatal but rather develops in the first few weeks or months after birth.
  • (19) One out of 3 bad results, found in a 4-year-old child, was supposed to be a connatal dislocation of head of radius.
  • (20) According to the few cases published in the literature, the vertical gaze palsy seems to occur predominantly in benign connatal aqueduct stenosis and may then be regarded as a relatively early symptom of decompensating hydrocephalic intracranial pressure.

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