mod 9: hypnosis

Question 1

What is hypnosis?

Answer 1

a social interaction/agreement between two people, suggestions

Question 2

true/false: not everyone is suggestible

Answer 2

false, though there are different degrees of suggestibility and thus receptiveness to hypnosis, everyone is suggestible to a certain degree

Question 3

true/false: actors and people with rich fantasy minds are more prone to hypnosis

Answer 3

true, they are more open to suggestion and are easily absorbed into fictions

Question 4

true/false: hypnosis can bring back any past event into ones memory

Answer 4

false, there might be a mental block, it might just not even be in there anymore

Question 5

what is age regression? is it real?

Answer 5

thru hypnosis reverting someone to how they were in years past, does not work as 60 years of research shows

Question 6

true/false: 10% of people can be hypnotized so that surgeryt can be done without anesthesia

Answer 6

true

Question 7

define dissociation

Answer 7

the split between different levels of consciousness

Question 8

true/false: hypnotists can implement any desires/suggestibilities into a person to hypnotize them

Answer 8

false, they take advantage only of EXISTING desires (ex. person wants to be hypnotized out of smoking, and THATS why it works)

Question 9

what is the dissociation/divieded consciousness theory?

Answer 9

that hypnosis occurs because people dissociate certain aspects, like pain, from others, like physical sensation, therefore the cold does not necessarily hurt

Question 10

what is the social influence theory?

Answer 10

the subject is so brought into their role that they ignore the stimulus