hypnosis

Question 1

2 stages of hypnosis

Answer 1

1. induction
2. suggestion

Question 1

hypnosis

Answer 1

attention focusing procedures in which changes in a person’s behavior or mental state is suggested

Question 2

induction

Answer 2

guides the subject into a pliable suggestible frame of mind. this requires a lot of focusing of attention

Question 3

hypnotic susceptibility

Answer 3

the extent to which an individual is characteristically responsive to hypnosis

Question 4

hypnosis myths (1)

Answer 4

most psychologist reject that hypnosis renders helplessness

Question 5

hypnosis myths (2)

Answer 5

hynoqptized subjects mostly reject immoral command

Question 6

hypnosis uses

Answer 6

1. psychological anesthetic/pain reliever
2. memory enhancement

Question 7

post hypnotic suggestion

Answer 7

a suggestion made to the patient in hypnosis is carried out after the induction session

Question 8

Post hypnotic amnesia

Answer 8

inability to recall events that occurred during session

Question 9

hypermnesia

Answer 9

unsubstantiated claim that hypnosis can be used to facilitate the retrieval of past memories

Question 10

special process theories

Answer 10

maintain that hypnosis induces a unique state of consciousness and that people are more responsive to suggestion while under hypnosis than in other states

Question 11

dissociation

Answer 11

a division of consciousness that permits one part of the mind to operate independently of another part

Question 12

social cognitive theories

Answer 12

maintain that hypnosis is not a distinct physiological state and that the same phenomenon can sometimes be produced through relaxation, role playing, positive expectations, and mere suggestion without hypnotic induction