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MODIFICATION IN AUTONOMICALLY MEDIATED PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO COLD PRESSOR BY WORD ASSOCIATIONS
Author(s) -
Mefferd Roy B.,
Wieland Betty A.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1965.tb02628.x
Subject(s) - cold pressor test , skin conductance , psychology , association (psychology) , stimulus (psychology) , pressor response , basal (medicine) , audiology , conditioning , medicine , cardiology , heart rate , blood pressure , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics , insulin , biomedical engineering , psychotherapist
Physiological measures—basal skin resistance (BSR), galvanic skin resistance (GSR), electrocardiogram (EKG), and skin temperatures—were made on 120 consecutive days on 3 male subjects during rest, a 20‐item word association test, recovery, a cold‐pressor test, a combination of cold‐pressor and a second similar word‐association test, and final recovery. Each stimulus alone induced increased sympathetic activity. Ongoing stress (cold pressor) responses, however, were depressed during the word‐association test. Furthermore, the nature, reaction times, and commonalities of the associations were influenced by the stress. The inhibition was not due to order, threshold, adaptation, or conditioning effects.