Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Quantifying Consciousness

An Empirical Approach

  • Book
  • © 1991

Overview

Authors:
  1. Ronald J. Pekala

    1. West Chester, USA
      Veterans Administration Medical Center, Biofeedback Clinic, Coatesville, USA

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy (EPPS)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 1-8

  3. The Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Consciousness and Introspection

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 11-29

    3. Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 31-52

    4. The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 53-71

    5. Quantifying the Structures and Patterns of Consciousness

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 73-87

  5. The Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Graphing Devices for the Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment Instruments

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 171-203

    3. Using Retrospective Phenomenological Assessment Instruments

      • Ronald J. Pekala
      Pages 205-242
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • West Chester, USA

    Ronald J. Pekala

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Biofeedback Clinic, Coatesville, USA

    Ronald J. Pekala

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantifying Consciousness

  • Book Subtitle: An Empirical Approach

  • Authors: Ronald J. Pekala

  • Series Title: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0629-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43750-2Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0631-1Published: 14 December 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0629-8Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 422

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Clinical Psychology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation