Author: O.V. Magirovskaya
Affiliation: Siberian Federal University
Abstract:
The article shows the advantages of regarding cognition as a multi-level cognitive activity. This focus of research leads to a clear understanding of the fact that cognitive mechanisms are directly determined by a human’s cognitive needs and abilities peculiar to each level of cognition (empirical, basic, secondary). It also explains that qualitative changes of cognitive mechanisms depend on complication of cognitive tasks.
Keywords: subject of cognition, knowledge configuration, empirical cognition, basic cognition, interpretation, evaluation, generalization, concretization, categorial generalization, abstraction, conceptual metaphor