Psychology 409b September 24, 2006

Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction

By: Crystal Bulda

Instructions for this activity are found at:

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj.leonpsy25/g25-oral1.htm

Leon James and Diane Nahl (2000).  Lecture Notes on the Unity Model of Marriage for G25. Unit 5.  Online at:

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/409b-g25-lecture-notes.htm

I.  Cognitive and Affective domains of gender interaction in marriage.

            A.  Reciprocity model

1.   Give equity power and give in to the women’s way of understanding.

2.   Man voluntarily agrees to let women play the lead role in decision making when it comes to their relationship areas.

B.  Man and Women are interacting at three levels of self.

1.   Sensorimotor Conjunction

a.   Conjoined first through external physical self of the partner, like eating, playing, embracing, and talking.

b.   Man’s motive to lead dominant role or please himself

c.   Women’s motive to continue relationship going to a deeper level.

2.   Cognitive Conjunction

a.   Women’s strives to take the man’s perspective, harmonize, and please him.

b.   Man is focused on himself.

c.   Women obtain a superior perception, and understanding of the relationship.

3.   Affective Conjunction

a.   Women strive more intensely to conjoin the man to herself at the affective level.

b.   Man has aligned his feelings with his woman, by giving up his prerogatives, left to him by society and traditions.

II. Women rise far above men in perception, understanding, and consciousness.

A. Both men and women have three natures or levels of operation of life.

1.   Biological nature of self

      a.  anatomy

2.   Rational nature of self

      a.  reciprocal orientation and focus

3.   Spiritual nature of self

      a.  Woman’s purpose to achieve unity

      b.  Man’s purpose of retaining independence

            B.  Sensorimotor Conjunction

1.   Mental state of husband and wife in which their sensations and movements are mutually and reciprocally interdependent.

2.   Sensorimotor independence

      a.  Husband insists on his own comforts and pleasures.

III.  Sequences of Mental Operations, to a goal state.

A. Affective self for motivation

B. Cognitive self for method of procedure

C. Sensorimotor self to execute

Related Links:

http://bahai-library.org/essays/marriage.ruhe.html

 Some Thought on Marriage-Margaret Ruhe explains how society is currently egocentric, self-gratified, and selfish.  This has prevented good relationships of any kind where people want to find closeness and warmth.  Some of the forgotten characteristics of a successful relationship are the art of sharing, communicating and cooperating, of adjustments.  Lasting relationships are no longer common since patience and forbearance has been lost.  She emphasizes how a good marriage is an intimate and loving relationship which gives both partners, security, friendship, companionship, support, comfort, and deep love that penetrates every aspect of life. None of this can be achieved without work and sacrifice.

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmeap/marriage.html

 What Makes Relationships Succeed? Dr. John Gottman reports his own theories of what makes a relationship work.  He has identified principles that cut across the gender and sexual orientations of interactions.  Ph.D Notarius thought in the 1980’s that whom you marry has little to do with how happy your marriage will be.  He debunks the fact that men and women have different needs in a relationship and different approaches to intimacy, which I found very interesting since it contradicted Dr. Leon James theory of the Unity Model of Marriage.  Instead Gottman is interested in the communication process of settling differences in the marriage to make it succeed.

http://spr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/2/263

Attachment Style in Marriage- Timothy W. Smith reviews the association between attachment style and marital functions.  This site emphasizes on the cognition of the marriage as the explanatory link of the marriage relationship.  He explains how the interaction of the husbands’ and wives’ attachment styles predicts the marital functioning.  I thought that this site was a good site to see how others give reason as to why husbands and wives clash in the relationship.  Smith shows another side of how the cognition is involved with a successful marriage.

My Home Page:

www.soc/hawaii/edu/leon/409bf2006/bulda/bulda-home.htm

Class Home Page:

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/classhome-g25.htm