AN INDIVIDUAL'S COGNITIVE ACTIVITY PROBLEM IN HISTORY RETROSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article studies the aspects of cognitive activity and the activity in history retrospection. The cognition and its study is not something unchanged, once and for all given, but is something that develops under certain laws. It has long history with the sources in the most ancient philosophy. At every stage of its development the knowledge is the result of the history of knowledge, the essence of all human activity forms. Scientific knowledge has its historically altered morphology. Its historical path analysis makes it possible to argue its origin from ancient philosophical schools, philosophers of Ancient India, China, Egypt, the countries of Mesopotamia. The phenomenon of an individual’s cognitive activity is complex and multifaceted. Scientists argue that cognitive activity is a complicated process of transition from ignorance to knowledge, from inability to ability, from random observations to systematic knowledge of the material world, to mastering the scientific truths. At the same time, a man, mastering new knowledge, affects the world, which, in turn, changes human life. The article analyses the influence of historical conditions on developing scientific thought about cognition, cognitive activity. The effectiveness of studying students’ educational and cognitive activity depends on how thoroughly the cognitive process is studied and the way its laws and features are used. The authors emphasise that taking into account the cognition theory possibilities, its Klondike was set in the Ancient world era and filled with new content rising to a new level in each generation .