Journal article
Imagery vividness affects habituation rate
Psychophysiology, Vol.15(3), pp.193-195
1978
Abstract
In order to investigate the effect of individual differences in imagery vividness on habituation rate, 14 subjects were threatened with receiving and then imagined receiving an electric shock. Subjects first habituated to a tone which was then used as an auditory signal for the shock threat and the imagined shock. The skin conductance response (SCR) was used to follow the course of habituation. Results demonstrated that subjects with non-vivid imagery habituated to the tone more rapidly than subjects with vivid imagery when the tone was associated with imagining an electric shock. Implications of this finding for therapeutic techniques using instructed imagery are discussed.
Details
- Title
- Imagery vividness affects habituation rate
- Authors/Creators
- P.D. Drummond (Author/Creator) - The University of QueenslandK.L. White (Author/Creator)R. Ashton (Author/Creator) - The University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Psychophysiology, Vol.15(3), pp.193-195
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Identifiers
- 991005543777707891
- Copyright
- © 1978 by The Society for Psychophysiological Research Inc.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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