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The previous chapters have dealt with perceptual factors related to symptom reporting. An implicit assumption has been that individuals are not accurate about symptom perception relative to objective measures of physiological state. For example, several of the studies have shown that perceptions of body state can easily be manipulated when physiological state has remained constant. Does this mean that perception of physiological state and actual physiological state are independent of one another? This question lies at the heart of the present chapter.
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Recently, Whitehead and Drescher (1980) reported that a signal-detection paradigm using 20 subjects yielded a significant correlation between the ability to perceive stomach contractions and heart rate (p <.05). In their task, subjects were required to press one of two buttons indicating whether or not a signal light corresponded with stomach contractions (in one series of sessions) and later heart rate (in another session). Because subjects participated in six 2-hour sessions over several weeks, it is reasonable to assume that certain subjects became more adept at the paradigm and hence yielded data suggesting unidimensionality.
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Pennebaker, J.W. (1982). Accuracy of Perception Relative to Physiological State. In: The Psychology of Physical Symptoms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8196-9_4
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