FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: method involves showing to testee a word list containing 50 words like pressure, heaviness, coolness, hot, dark, tickle, hunger, crack, numbness, weakness, tremble, injection, rest, ease, movement, beat, fatigue, listless, effort, unconsciousness, hairy, rustle, loud, buzz, scratch, solid, flash, splash, elastic, whisper, wet, humid, ring, bitter, knock, glimmer, shrink, cease, attraction, hurt, surfeit, pleasure, excitation, presentiment, heat, devastation, bliss, sadness, pierce, becoming more rapid describing corporeal sensations. 5 wards have traditional positive emotional cognitive meaning like rest, ease, movement, pleasure, bliss; 5 wards have traditional negative emotional cognitive meaning like heaviness, weakness, listless, hurt, devastation; the other 40 words have traditional neutral emotional cognitive meaning. The testee is asked to define emotional response evoked by each of the words: positive emotional response; negative emotional response; no emotional response; emotional response of indefinite sign. Percentage of words causing positive emotional response in the testee is determined. The value being equal to or less than 12%, pathological reduction of positive component in emotional cognitive corporeal sensations estimate. Percentage of words causing negative emotional response is calculated in the like way. The value being equal to or greater than 70%, pathological growth of negative component in emotional cognitive corporeal sensations estimate.
EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in studying interoceptive, exteroceptive and proprioceptive sensations and giving their quantitative estimates.
4 cl, 2 tbl
