The Psychophysiology of Private Events

Hefferline, Ralph F.; Bruno, Louis J. J.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-379650-9.50014-9

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“…Previous operant research with normal subjects (Hefferline & Bruno, 1973) has shown that pre-stimulus muscle tensions can be a factor in the perception of stimulus intensities and in the likelihood of stimulus generalization. The present research adds to this earlier work by showing that base-line muscle tensions may be correlated with rates and patterns of motoric responding with schizophrenics under different contingencies of reinforcement.…”

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Base‐line muscle tensions and motoric responding of schizophrenics

Weiner¹

1981

British J Clinic Psychol

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Schizophrenics with high or low levels of frontalis muscle tensions while at rest (base-line) were instructed to respond (button-press) at different rates, allowed to respond at any rate they preferred, and reinforced for responding under different schedules of reinforcement. Information about response-reinforcement relationships was provided for each reinforcement schedule. High and low levels of base-line muscle tensions were associated with high and low rates of preferred and reinforced responding, respectively. Response rates also varied with different contingencies of reinforcement. Further, the data permit the following tentative conclusions: (a) under certain contingencies, responding may vary more with base-line muscle tensions than with the contingency of reinforcement, and (b) instructed rates of responding may not be correlated consistently with base-line muscle tensions.

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Base‐line muscle tensions and motoric responding of schizophrenics

Weiner¹

1981

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…Made public, these events could not only be scrutinized experimentally, but as we shall see later, they could, when fed back to the subject in visual or auditory analog, furnish a powerful method for somatic surveys and retraining. 67 Hefferline's last publication described studies intended to condition hallucinations,68 and his last public presentation was as a participant in a symposium in Mexico City, "The Conditioning of Internal Response Systems." The title of his paper was, as always, intriguing: "Discriminative Proprioceptive Patterns as Triggers for Release of 'Repressed Material.'…”

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Ralph Franklin Hefferline: The Gestalt Therapist among the Skinnerians or the Skinnerian among the Gestalt Therapists?

Knapp

1986

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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“…Lange (1888) noted that when a subject's response was in accordance with his prepared intention reaction time was faster. Hefferline and Bruno (1971) trained their subjects in producing covert adduction or abduction of the arm during a judgment task requiring response from one arm or the other. During a subsequent discrimination task prestimulus intention to act as reflected in EMG activity was clearly observed to affect overt responding.…”

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The Intentional Paradigm and Cognitive Psychophysiology

O’Connor

1981

Psychophysiology

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Applications of cognitive and non-cognitive mediational models in psychophysiology are reviewed, and a case is presented for considering pre-attentive intentionality of the subject as a determining factor in response formation.A paradigm shift away from the S-R causal contingency approach, which structures stimulus and response as discrete and separable events, is proposed. An alternative acausal RS approach which integrates production of stimulus and response as a manifestation of subjects' intentional behavior is su^^ed. According to this model, 'psychic' and 'somatic' activities are linked in common expression of episodic intentional skills developed by the subject.Psychophysiological measures recorded within one such RS paradigm are illustrated, and some method-olt^cal and conceptual implications of adopting a cognitive psychophysiological paradigm are discussed.

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The Psychophysiology of Private Events

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Base‐line muscle tensions and motoric responding of schizophrenics

Base‐line muscle tensions and motoric responding of schizophrenics

Ralph Franklin Hefferline: The Gestalt Therapist among the Skinnerians or the Skinnerian among the Gestalt Therapists?

The Intentional Paradigm and Cognitive Psychophysiology

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