Module 25
Pain and hypnosis
Hypnosis does work as a means to control pain
Placebo effect
Improvement due only to the power of posturing expectations People think they will get better so they do
divided conciousness theory
Theory that during hypnosis our consciousness splits so that one aspect of consciousness is not aware of the role that the other parts are playing
Social influence theory
Theory that powerful social influences produce a state of hypnosis
posthypnotic suggestion
a hypnotist's suggestion that the subject will respond in a particular way following hypnosis
Hypnosis
a social interaction in which the hypnotist makes suggestions about perception, feelings, thoughts, or behavior and the subject follows those suggestion
people who are imaginative and prone to fantasy
are usually more hypnotizable than other people
Ernest Hilgard found that hypnotized students given the suggestion that they were dead would raise a finger if some part of them could still hear. This finding provides evidence for...
divided consciousness theory
Ernest hilgard
divided consciousness theory-pioneering hypnosis reseacher
The main difference between the two theories of hypnosis is that the social influence theory attributes the power of hypnosis to---forces and the divided consciousness theory attributes the power of hypnosis to forces---
external; internal
which of the following statements best matches the definition of hypnosis?
hypnosis results from an interaction between a hypnotist and a subject involving powerful suggestions about behavior
hypnosis experiments indicate that
hypnotic suggestions can lead people to do things they otherwise wouldn't
why have many courts banned testimony from witnesses who have been hypnotized
many people create false memories while hypnotized
under hypnosis, a hypnotist suggests to Kristi that she will stand on one foot when she hears the word flamingo. After the hypnosis session ends, the hypnosist says flamingo and Kristi stands on one foot. She responded to
posthypnotic suggestion
People who are pretending to be hypnotized can perfrom the same actions as people who are actually hypnotized. This result provides evidence for...
social influence theory
which of the following is usually used as the focal point for the subject to induce a hypnotic state
the hypnotist's voice
many claims for physical effects of hypnosis can be explained by
the placebo effect