Integration of Sexual and Relational Mental Representations in Autobiographical Memories is Associated with Sexual Well-Being

Determinants of sexual well-being have often been identified as sexual and relational satisfaction, which both include a focus on partner relationship. Such a conceptualization excludes sexually active single individuals, while confusing sexual and relational satisfaction with sexual well-being as both determinant and outcome. In the present research, we propose an intrapersonal perspective focused on cognitive sexual and relational mental representations as determinants of sexual well-being. Based on behavioral systems theory, we suggest that a high level of integration of sexual and relational mental representations should be associated with sexual well-being indicators, whereas a weaker level of integration should correspond to a lower level of sexual well-being. We developed a novel codification scheme to measure the cognitive integration of sexual and relational mental representations in narratives of sexual autobiographical memories. We examined its associations with sexual well-being indicators (satisfaction, passion, and sociosexuality). In a sample of 142 students, results showed that integration of sexual and relational representations in memories was positively associated with sexual satisfaction and harmonious passion, and negatively with obsessive passion and sociosexual desire. Results suggest that an integrated cognitive organization of sexual and relational mental representations in autobiographical memories can reflect a greater sexual wellbeing. Clinical implications are discussed.

Envisioning the world within or without limits: on representation and creativity in the aesthetics of 17th century China

This essay examines a number of statements on painting and visual perception by Chinese literati artists of the late Ming – early Qing periods. It argues that the approaches to pictorial representation and creativity entailed in these statements reveal a considerable impact of Buddhist theories of consciousness. In the theories analyzed, pictorial representation is discussed in terms of ways and modes of how the mind relates to the world. As will be demonstrated, the function of expressing cognitive organization in representation is given more prominence than the function of rendering an external reality. The view of pictorial representation as being essentially what the mind produces in its relation to the world provides a basis for the assumption of a fundamental affinity between the creation of an image and the process how phenomenal reality unfolds by virtue of cognitive operations. This assumption seems to broadly underpin the painting theories discussed. And it is this assumption that provides a clue how and why the literati artists adopt Buddhist theories of cognition to the understanding of art. In the last section of the essay, we turn to the sources which cast still another perspective on artistic practice, namely a practice which captures a single moment of pure direct perception.

On the role of the concept of noospheric knowledge in the era of technoscience

The article examines the changes that characterize modern science and scientific research, which have been embodied in the phenomenon of technoscience. Technological science is distinguished from traditional science by a new form of cognitive organization, integrating fundamental and applied research, natural science and human knowledge. It is both a theoretical activity for the production of ideas and social practice. It is substantiated that technoscience, which is both a theoretical construct and a social practice, embodies the project of noospheric knowledge, about which the outstanding Russian scientist V.I. Vernadsky wrote. His teaching expressed the idea of a new science, and by characterizing it, he stressed that science can’t be considered only as a collection of facts and limited to its instrumental functions, he understood it as the most powerful and important spiritual movement, contributing to the formation of the noosphere - the sphere of reason. Scientific knowledge, which is formed in the consequence of integrative tendencies in modern science, manifested in the systemic and holistic scientific worldview, in transdisciplinary studies, in the convergence of natural science and humanities knowledge, is designated as technoscience. It is shown that the noospheric science of V.I. Vernadsky, based on the wise mind, which he foresaw as the coming stage of the natural historical process, can be compared with the phenomenon of technoscience.

Cognitive organization of cognitive activities of students on the basis of effective harmonization of logical and emotional aspects of acquiring of scientific knowledge

The relevance of the article is due to the fact that cognitive pedagogy has set the task of identifying the patterns of functioning and the formation of learning mechanisms for students in order to increase the effectiveness and quality of higher education in the era of digitalization. The purpose of the article is to reveal the integrative integrity of cognitive-logical and emotional-figurative mechanisms of cognition based on the relationship between the perceptions of the procedural deployment of educational material with the patterns in the presentation of a simultaneous image in the process of semantic disclosure of educational information. The cognitive paradigm is positioned as a methodological basis for the study, based on the appeal to methods, types and technologies of information processing by a person in order to create his own system of knowledge of the world with access to the generation of knowledge. The authors emphasize the importance of using the mechanisms of art in the process of emotionally figurative interpretation of scientific knowledge associated with the hermeneutic direction, according to which it is necessary to prepare students for perception, adjust them to experience and empathy, which contribute to the assimilation of scientific knowledge not reproductively, but constructively, creatively. In the process of experimental work, diagnostics of the dominant perceptual modality and imagination were used in order to identify their role in the organization of educational and cognitive activity in conditions of intensive generation of knowledge.

Breaking down gender subtype perception

Gender stereotype research has identified many female and male subtypes, e.g. housewife, career woman, macho man, and wimp. Regarding their perception, several dimensions, such as Warmth, Competence, Traditionality, and Age, have been found to be meaningful in people’s cognitive organization of them. The present paper analyses gender subtype perception results obtained in an online questionnaire among English and Spanish participants who rated ten female and ten male subtypes on 15 scales. The subtypes were produced by the participants themselves in a prior study. The results are backed up by interview quotes of the same participants. Many of the findings conform to those of prior studies, e.g. the clear separation of female and male subtype clusters, while others are novel or contrary to previous research. Thus, the English male subtype mate is perceived both very masculine and feminine and the Spanish promiscuous female subtype guarra is seen as inherently different from the English equivalents.

Constructive Learning Model In Sub Material Music Culture Learning In Madrasah Tsanawiyah 1 Semarang

Based on data analysis can be concluded that the implementation of learning the art of music in class VII A MTs Negeri 1 Semarang using the approach of constructivism run organized, this is evidenced by learning already using model arrests have three stages are (a) presentation of advance organizer, educator provides an overview of the terms of supporting about music (b) the presentation of the material or the learning task, create discussion among students and evaluated by educators and (c) strengthen the cognitive organization, frequently asked questions and a deepening of the material. Learning implemented within 2x45 minutes with the distribution phase advance organizer presentation lasted 15 minutes, the stage presentation of the material or the learning task carried out within 60 minutes, and the stage of cognitive organization strengthen lasted 15 minutes. Suggestions can author to convey, among others: (1) educators should be able to take advantage of instructional media such as musical instruments and projectors which is owned schools maximally.

The Media-Sphere as Dream

The psychological nature of the electronic media environment is a virtual reality that—according to Jungian principles—is dreamlike. Perhaps it can be analyzed with Jung's Analytical Psychology. Science is experiencing a paradigm shift into a reality of mediated illusion, and psychological research on this illusion has become the human imperative. It may be stipulated that physics has abolished matter, conceding that “reality is organized mind stuff.” If cosmos is structured holographically and the brain is structured holonomically, it is probable that “mind stuff” is structured holographically. The Jungian concept of Psyche is a good place to begin researching the Media-sphere as mind stuff. Cognitive sciences are probing the brain and nervous system in search of the template for cognitive organization, and the salient features have already emerged. It appears that both conscious and unconsciousness cognitive dimensions have dramatic form. This dreamlike structure can be employed to analyze the media dream, and to foster coherent psychological states in contextual collectives.

Applicability of Rhetorical Structure Theory for Representing Logical-Cognitive Organization of Poetic Texts: Empirical Investigation

Rhetorical Structure Theory is popular in theoretical and applied investigations for representing discourse structures and corresponding relational propositions that play the key role in the process of text comprehension. The aim of the article is to explore possibilities and principles of applying the RST for displaying logical and cognitive organization of Russian poetic texts. Driven by the aim of exploring possible applications of RST, its authors and their proponents have analyzed up till now numerous prosaic texts and types of texts. And yet, studying its potential in the field of poetic analysis remains relevant. Since the Theory has never been applied to Russian poetry, an empirical stage of research is necessary. This stage consists in elaborating the principles of dividing a written poetic text into elementary segments, specifying logical relations, constructing structures of poems on this logical basis, completing preliminary analysis of this experience to single out its possibilities and prospects. The article presents the results of such a work. The empirical sample consists of short lyric poems (from 9 to 34 lines); it includes ten texts by A. K. Tolstoy and the same number of texts by I. F. Annensky. The total number of relations, used for representing the structures of these texts, is equal to 26. Frequency ratio of these relations was calculated. Comparative analysis of the poetic structures constructed revealed several differences between the two authors concerning their usage of relations. The results of the investigation evidenced the applicability of Rhetorical Structure Theory to poetry. They show that more research projects in this field are needed to refine its techniques, as well as greater material, including these and other authors, other poetic genres, etc.

Ideology and Values in Political Decision Making

The study of ideology hinges upon several important characteristics. First, the term “ideology” may connote different things to voters. To some, it indicates a preference for “conservatism” over “liberalism”; others adopt a more nuanced perspective, identifying ideology as “libertarianism,” “environmentalism,” and “populism” (among others). Some view it is an identity. Ideological labels are entrenched in political and non-political identities. The term “conservative” may signal a social orientation only loosely related to conservatism’s philosophical tenets (e.g., limiting the size and scope of the federal government). “Liberalism” or “progressivism,” signal a different worldview that also perhaps loosely related to the philosophical characteristics of modern (American) liberalism (e.g., “expanding the social safety net”). Ideology is also a means of cognitive organization; it is used to make sense of oftentimes complex public policy. Individuals organize policy beliefs around organizing principles, such as a preference for reducing the size of the federal government. Considering this heterogeneity, it is important to use the term with precision, in order to better understand how voters rely upon ideology in their decision calculus. Second, ideology is a central characteristic in the general structure of political beliefs. It acts as a lens through which the political and social world is interpreted. Third, ideology is functional in nature. Ideological preferences often fulfill a voter’s unique psychological, motivational, and personality-oriented characteristics. Finally, ideology has unique consequences in contemporary politics, as evidenced by increased political polarization, partisan-ideological sorting, and ideologically divisive rhetoric.