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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... Hypnoidal effects associated with several stress man- agement strategies . Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis , 16 , 121–132 . Pekala , R. J. , & Forbes , E. J. ( 1989 ) . Phenomenological effects associated with ...
... Hypnoidal effects associated with several stress man- agement strategies . Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis , 16 , 121–132 . Pekala , R. J. , & Forbes , E. J. ( 1989 ) . Phenomenological effects associated with ...
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... Hypnoidal States : Rationale and Clinical Application 319 Hypnoidal States 320 Using the PCI to Assess Hypnoidal Effects in Individual Patients 322 Discussion and Conclusions 326 Hypnoidal Effects Associated with Several Stress ...
... Hypnoidal States : Rationale and Clinical Application 319 Hypnoidal States 320 Using the PCI to Assess Hypnoidal Effects in Individual Patients 322 Discussion and Conclusions 326 Hypnoidal Effects Associated with Several Stress ...
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... Hypnoidal Effects Phenomenological Intensity Effects Significance and Conclusions 327 329 331 333 333 334 334 335 335 335 336 337 340 340 340 341 16. Consciousness : A Noetic - Behavioral Integration 343 An Integration of ...
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... effects ] , icons [ two - dimensional representations of ( sub ) dimension intensity effects ] , and hypnographs ( graphs of the hypnoidal effects associated with a given stimulus condi- tion ) , the researcher has a means to diagram ...
... effects ] , icons [ two - dimensional representations of ( sub ) dimension intensity effects ] , and hypnographs ( graphs of the hypnoidal effects associated with a given stimulus condi- tion ) , the researcher has a means to diagram ...
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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