Quantifying Consciousness: An Empirical ApproachThis book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, test ing, and researching the use of relatively simple self-report question naires in the retrospective assessment of subjective or phenomenologi cal experience. While the simplicity of the method allows for subjective experience to be reliably and validly assessed across various short stim ulus conditions, the flexibility of the approach allows the cognitive psy chologist, consciousness researcher, and mental health professional to quantify and statistically assess the phenomenological variables associ ated with various stimulus conditions, altered-state induction tech niques, and clinical procedures. The methodology allows the cognitive psychologist and mental health professional to comprehensively quantify the structures and pat terns of subjective experience dealing with imagery, attention, affect, volitional control, internal dialogue, and so forth to determine how these phenomenological structures might covary during such stimulus conditions as free association, a sexual fantasy, creative problem solving, or a panic attack. It allows for various phenomenological pro cesses to be reported, quantified, and statistically assessed in a rather comprehensive fashion that should help shed greater understanding on the nature of mind or consciousness. |
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... Dimensions of Attention Questionnaire 145 Rationale for an Attention Questionnaire 145 Development of Items for an Attention Questionnaire 146 Study 1 148 Design Method 148 • 149 Results 150 Discussion 157 Study 2 159 Development of the ...
... Dimensions of Attention Questionnaire 145 Rationale for an Attention Questionnaire 145 Development of Items for an Attention Questionnaire 146 Study 1 148 Design Method 148 • 149 Results 150 Discussion 157 Study 2 159 Development of the ...
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... Dimension ( Using Form 1 Items ) 351 B. DAQ Items as a Function of DAQ Dimensions ( Using Form 1 Items ) 357 .... C. Item ... Dimensions of Attention Questionnaire 365 E. Raw Score Conversion Tables for the PCI and the DAQ 367 F. SYSTAT ...
... Dimension ( Using Form 1 Items ) 351 B. DAQ Items as a Function of DAQ Dimensions ( Using Form 1 Items ) 357 .... C. Item ... Dimensions of Attention Questionnaire 365 E. Raw Score Conversion Tables for the PCI and the DAQ 367 F. SYSTAT ...
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... stimulus conditions , altered - state induction techniques , and clinical pro- cedures . The variations in subjective experience are quantified by means of the dimensions and subdimensions of consciousness ( or attention 1 Introduction.
... stimulus conditions , altered - state induction techniques , and clinical pro- cedures . The variations in subjective experience are quantified by means of the dimensions and subdimensions of consciousness ( or attention 1 Introduction.
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An Empirical Approach R.J. Pekala. of the dimensions and subdimensions of consciousness ( or attention ) mapped by ... dimension intensity effects ] , icons [ two - dimensional representations of ( sub ) dimension intensity effects ] ...
An Empirical Approach R.J. Pekala. of the dimensions and subdimensions of consciousness ( or attention ) mapped by ... dimension intensity effects ] , icons [ two - dimensional representations of ( sub ) dimension intensity effects ] ...
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... dimensions of consciousness ( or attention ) mapped by the self - report inventories are " fundamental " structures of consciousness in the Wundtian sense . Rather they are ( sub ) dimensions of subjective experience found to be ...
... dimensions of consciousness ( or attention ) mapped by the self - report inventories are " fundamental " structures of consciousness in the Wundtian sense . Rather they are ( sub ) dimensions of subjective experience found to be ...
Contents
1 | |
11 | |
Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology | 53 |
Consciousness | 60 |
Consciousness and the Unconscious | 68 |
Development Reliability and Validity of | 91 |
41 | 98 |
Rationale for the Use of Retrospective Phenomenological | 208 |
Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment | 215 |
StimulusState Specificity | 225 |
A Note on Methodology as to Fundamental Structures | 233 |
Conclusions | 242 |
The Trait of Absorption and Subjective Experience | 245 |
From Classical to Contemporary Introspection | 256 |
Using the PCI to Investigate TraitState Aspects | 259 |
Reliability | 99 |
11 | 100 |
51 | 104 |
Development Reliability and Validity of | 113 |
19 | 120 |
Introduction | 127 |
Development Reliability and Validity of the Dimensions | 145 |
12222 | 152 |
Study 2 | 159 |
Graphing Devices for the Retrospective Phenomenological | 171 |
Icons | 192 |
Using Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment | 205 |
Study 2 | 268 |
Study 3 | 279 |
The Differential Organization of the Structures | 289 |
Study 2 | 302 |
Predicting Hypnotic Susceptibility with the PCI | 309 |
Assessing an OutoftheBody Experience with the | 333 |
Discussion | 340 |
Appendixes | 351 |
B DAQ Items as a Function of DAQ Dimensions Using | 357 |
References | 395 |
About the Author | 411 |
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A)DCQ absorption ADCQ altered experience ANOVA associated attention dimensions Attention Questionnaire average awareness baseline condition behavior biofeedback body image cluster analysis coefficient alpha cognitive cognitive psychology completed the PCI correlation matrices different stimulus conditions dimension intensity dimensions of consciousness erotica experienced eyes open eyes-open factor factor analysis greater alterations Harvard Group Scale Harvard Scale high susceptibles hypnosis hypnotic induction hypnotic susceptibility imagery amount individuals induction procedure intensity and pattern intensity scores internal dialogue introspection item-pairs Jennrich test Likert scale low susceptibles major dimensions medium memory negative affect nomenological PCI dimensions PCI sub)dimensions Pekala & Kumar perception phenomenological assessment phenomenological experience Phenomenology of Consciousness pips positive affect predicted procedural knowledge progressive relaxation psychology psygrams reference reliability index reported sciousness self-awareness significant differences significantly different Singer stimulus conditions stream of consciousness structures subjective experience subsystems suggests Tart tion variability variance volitional control