Correlates of Hypnotizability Flashcards
What factors have been proven to not be correlated with hypnotizability?
Personality measures (ex: Big Five), intelligence, gender, age, race, acquiescence (compliance), gullibility, social desirability
What cognitive styles positively relate to hypnotizability?
Absorption & Imagery/ image thinking (needed for responses)
What is absorption?
Open to absorbing and self-altering experience (ex: moved by a musical piece)
What is the demand hypothesis?
The demands of experimental context affects response to scale
What is the construct ambiguity hypothesis?
Scale questions are subject to different interpretations, intensity (related) versus frequency (unrelated)
What factors have mixed findings related to hypnotizability?
Fantasy proneness, paranormal experiences, dream control, dissociation
Is there one factor that is highly correlated to hypnotizability?
No, but there are some factors that help contribute to more hypnotizability
What attentional systems relate to hypnotization?
Alerting (change in a person’s internal state in preparation for perceiving a stimulus), orienting (directs person’s point of reference to sensory objects), selecting (choosing among conflicting actions)
What areas of the frontal lobe relate to hypnotization?
Lateral PFC, Ventromedial PFC, anterior cingulate. They are part of a network that links motor, perceptual, and limbic regions
How does the corpus callosum relate to hypnotizability?
A larger CC is related to higher hypnotizability
What attentional process relates to hypnotizability?
Automaticity (fast processing, requires minimal attentional resources). High hypnotizables seem to process info differently (i.e. more automatically) than low hypnotizables
How do high hypnotizables typically experience automaticity?
Greater Stroop interference with priming, faster processing at the level of frontal lobes, superior performance on explicit memory tasks, lower working memory capacity, greater optimizing of attentional strategies, more vulnerable to memory distortions
What social-cognitive measures positively correlate with hypnotizability?
Beliefs, expectations, motivation, attitudes
Which gene is related to hypnotizability?
catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) - through its role in executive functions
Which COMT allele is most related to hypnotizability?
Val/ Met polymorphic gene
