Module 22: Understanding Consciousness and Hypnosis

Question 1

What do we call awareness of our environment and ourselves?

Answer 1

Consciousness

Question 2

What is the social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person’s (the hypnotist’s) suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur?

Answer 2

Hypnosis

Question 3

What is a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors?

Answer 3

Posthypnotic suggestion

Question 4

What is a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others?

Answer 4

Dissociation

Question 5

______ have helped people harness their own healing powers but have not been very effective in treating addiction. Hypnosis can help relieve pain.

Answer 5

Posthypnotic suggestions

Question 6

While many psychologists believe that hypnosis is a form of normal social influence and that hypnotize people act out the role of “good subject”, other psychologists view hypnosis as a ________

Answer 6

dissociation