Hypnosis Flashcards
Is hypnosis the same as being asleep
No it is just and altered state of conscious
Hypnosis is
A state of heightened suggestibility in which people experience imagined test suggestions as if they were real
What is a hypnotherapist
Uses hypnosis to treat some type of behavioral problem
Hypnotist is
A person that uses hypnosis for entertainment purposes
Someone in hypnotics state has five characteristics what are they
Narrow and focused attention Imagination Passive receptive attitude Reduced reaction to pain Heightened suggestibility
What division of the APA study’s hypnosis
Division 30
Hypnotic procedure has two phases
Hypnotic induction and hypnotic suggestion
Hypnotic induction
Getting you to be hypnotized
How long does hypnotic induction take
10 min
Hypnotic suggestion
Can happen while in trance
Post hypnotic suggestion
Person out of the hypnotic can remember or be put back in the trance
Give hypnotic suggestions cause they give
Ideomotor suggestions
Challenge suggestion
Cognitive suggestion
Ideomotor suggestion
Experience a motor movement ( arm floating up
Challenge suggestion
Subject is told he/she will not be able to do something
Cognitive suggestion
Experience in change of sensation
A person can be hypnotized against will
Only weak willed people
Experience past life
Not the hypnotized it is because the hypnotist was not very good
False
When hypnosis is used to help reduce pain it is called
Hypnotic analgesia
Psychoanalytic approach of hypnosis
Sigmund Freud
You gain access to your concious
Neodissociation approach
Hernest Hilgard
Part of you knows (hidden observer)
Part of you doesn’t know
Socio cognitive approach
People when hypnotized they think/ role play how they should act like
Who coined the term hypnosis
James bray
Who used magnets over people’s body (animal magnetism) to bring out illness
Franz Anton Mesmer
