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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Preface. This book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its
various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, testing, and
researching the use of relatively simple self-report questionnaires in the
retrospective ...
Preface. This book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its
various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, testing, and
researching the use of relatively simple self-report questionnaires in the
retrospective ...
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I believe psychology has been successful in understanding human behavior
because it has attempted to quantify and statistically assess that behavior. Just as
psychology has moved from a behavioral to a cognitive perspective, I believe it
will ...
I believe psychology has been successful in understanding human behavior
because it has attempted to quantify and statistically assess that behavior. Just as
psychology has moved from a behavioral to a cognitive perspective, I believe it
will ...
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In order to quantify human consciousness or mind, one must have something to
measure and hence the need to have “structures" or “subsystems" of
consciousness. It is here that I may be accused of “reifying" consciousness. I do
not believe, ...
In order to quantify human consciousness or mind, one must have something to
measure and hence the need to have “structures" or “subsystems" of
consciousness. It is here that I may be accused of “reifying" consciousness. I do
not believe, ...
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Contents
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Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness | 31 |
The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology | 53 |
Development Reliability and Validity of | 91 |
Reliability | 99 |
Development Reliability and Validity of | 113 |
Validity | 120 |
A Note on Methodology as to Fundamental Structures | 233 |
Conclusions | 242 |
The Trait of Absorption and Subjective Experience | 245 |
Using the PCI to Investigate TraitState Aspects | 259 |
Study 2 | 268 |
Study 3 | 279 |
The Differential Organization of the Structures | 289 |
Study 2 | 302 |
The Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory | 127 |
Development Reliability and Validity of the Dimensions | 145 |
Study 2 | 159 |
Graphing Devices for the Retrospective Phenomenological | 171 |
Icons | 192 |
Using Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment | 205 |
Rationale for the Use of Retrospective Phenomenological | 208 |
Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment | 215 |
StimulusState Specificity | 225 |
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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