Quantifying Consciousness An Empirical Approach
This 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
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EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors: Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Recent volumes in the series THE COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN: Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotion P. V. Simonov GUIDED AFFECTIVE IMAGERY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Hanscarl Leuner, Gunther Horn, and Edda Klessmann IMAGERY AND VISUAL EXPRESSION IN THERAPY Vija Bergs Lusebrink LANGUAGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: Strategies of Discovery Edited by Robert L. Russell THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Jack George Thompson THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Carroll E. Izard QUANTIFYING CONSCIOUSNESS: An Empirical Approach Ronald J. Pekala SAMPLING NORMAL AND SCHIZOPHRENIC INNER EXPERIENCE Russell T. Hurlburt SHYNESS: Perspectives on Research and Treatment Edited by Warren H. Jones, Jonathan M. Cheek, and Stephen R. Briggs THE TRANSFORMED SELF: The Psychology of Religious Conversion Chana Ullman
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Quantifying
Consciousness
An Empirical Approach
Ronald J. Pekala
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pekala, Ronald J. Quantifying consciousness : an empirical approach / Ronald J. Pekala. p. en. — (Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy) Includes bibliographical references and Index. 1. Consciousness—Testing. 2. Self-report Inventories. 3. Phenonienological psychology—Methodology. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Consciousness. 2. Psychometrics—methods. BF 311 P379q] BF311.P319 1991 126—dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 91-24226 CIP
ISBN 978-1-4899-0631-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0629-8
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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991 Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1991 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
To my parents, John and Susan Pekala
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 assessment of subjective or phenomenological experience. While the simplicity of the method allows for subjective experience to be reliably and validly assessed across various short stimulus conditions, the flexibility of the approach allows the cognitive psychologist, consciousness researcher, and mental health professional to quantify and statisticall
