Empirical studies indicate the high complexity of unconscious semantic information processing. However, results rise numerous questions concerning relationship between early unconscious processing and subsequent conscious assimilation of information. The article presents studies based on the assumption that conscious assimilation of semantic information depends on the affect evoked by words on the unconscious level of processing. In two studies negative, neutral and positive words were suboptimally exposed (for 40msec). Then, targets -- the same words (study 1) or synonyms (study 2) -- were optimally presented on the screen. The hypothesis predicted that the effectiveness of recognition of the suboptimally exposed words will be higher for positive than for negative words. Participants (students of different faculties of the University of Warsaw; study 1: N=71, study 2: N=71), were invited to 'studies on intuition'. They were told in advance that some very short and invisible stimuli will be exposed, and a moment later two words will be visible on the screen. The task is to guess which word is connected with previous invisible stimuli. In both studies the level of the words' recognition was significantly higher than chance. And in coherence with hypothesis, the level of words' or their synonyms' recognition was higher for positive than for negative words.
W prezentowanych badaniach postawiono pytania o związki (1) cech pacjentów z ich doświadczeniami z przebiegu psychoterapii oraz (2) doświadczeń z psychoterapii z dokonywaną przez pacjentów oceną jej skuteczności. Pomiar zmiennych przeprowadzono przy użyciu ankiety katamnestycznej, którą wysłano do 1210 byłych pacjentów ośrodka psychoterapii. Uzyskano odpowiedzi od 276 osób (55% kobiet i 45% mężczyzn), w większości poniżej 30. roku życia. Do analizy danych zastosowano modele strukturalne i analizę korespondencji. Wyniki wskazują, że: (1) zmienne grupują się wokół dobrej i niedobrej relacji psychoterapeutycznej; zbudowano dwa modele – jeden dla dobrej, drugi dla niedobrej relacji z psychoterapeutą; (2) podgrupy pacjentów stwierdzających poprawę, pogorszenie i brak zmian różnią się pod względem cech przed psychoterapią i doświadczeń z psychoterapii.
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In the presented research, questions were asked concerning the associations (1) between patients’ characteristics and their experiences from psychotherapy as well as (2) between experiences from psychotherapy and the patients’ assessment of its effectiveness. The variables were measured using a catamnestic survey, which was sent to 1,210 former patients of a psychotherapy center. We received answers from 276 people (55% women and 45% men), most of them aged under 30. Data were analyzed by means of structural models and correspondence analysis. The results indicate that: (1) variables group around good and bad psychotherapeutic relationship; two models were built – one for a good relationship and the other for a bad relationship with the psychotherapist; (2) the subgroups of patients reporting improvement, deterioration, and no change differ in terms of characteristics before psychotherapy and in terms of experiences from psychotherapy.
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