TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychophysics in the field
T2 - Perception and memory for labor pain
AU - Algom, Daniel
AU - Lubel, Sonia
PY - 1994/3
Y1 - 1994/3
N2 - Separate groups of women estimated the painfulness of labor contractions either immediately (perceptual judgments) or at time intervals varying from 8 to 48 h after their completion (memorial judgments). The pain judgments of individual uterine contractions were related functionally to the biometrically measured magnitude of these contractions. Perceived and remembered painful sensations were related to referent intensities by power functions governed, as a rule, by exponents greater than unity. Exponents for the memory functions were consistently greater than those for the perceptual functions. Psychophysics done in the field can help decide theoretical issues in addition to providing useful practical information.
AB - Separate groups of women estimated the painfulness of labor contractions either immediately (perceptual judgments) or at time intervals varying from 8 to 48 h after their completion (memorial judgments). The pain judgments of individual uterine contractions were related functionally to the biometrically measured magnitude of these contractions. Perceived and remembered painful sensations were related to referent intensities by power functions governed, as a rule, by exponents greater than unity. Exponents for the memory functions were consistently greater than those for the perceptual functions. Psychophysics done in the field can help decide theoretical issues in addition to providing useful practical information.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0028376253&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3758/BF03211661
DO - 10.3758/BF03211661
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AN - SCOPUS:0028376253
SN - 0031-5117
VL - 55
SP - 133
EP - 141
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
IS - 2
ER -