Module 25

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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


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