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Psychosomatic Medicine 30:311-323 (1968)
© 1968 American Psychosomatic Society

Sensitivity to Latent Cues as a Function of 2 Changes in Skin Resistance: Orienting Response and Basal Drop

DONALD P. SPENCE PH.D.1, HARRY FISS PH.D.1, and MICHAEL VARGA 1

1 Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, New York, N. Y.

A test of sensitivity to low-level cues is described. The test consists of 32 pairs of items; one of each pair is similar, in some specific way, to a standard stimulus. Basal skin resistance was monitored continuously during each subject's performance. Sensitivity to a particular item was significantly related to subjective confidence on that item and to increase in relaxation during the judgment period for that item (change in basal skin resistance), and negatively related to an orienting response to that item. Implications for therapeutic sensitivity are discussed.

Submitted on September 21, 1967






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