A social interaction in which a hypnotist makes suggestions about perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors and a subject follows those suggestions.
What is Hypnosis?
100
Hypnosis is a result of external social variables
What is Social Influence Theory
100
A way to retrieve memory
What is correlation between hypnosis and memory
100
Strength and Age regression
What are two skeptical types of claims for the power of hypnosis?
200
Hypnotists' tell people what to do and usually affect behavior, sensation, thought, and/or emotion
What are Hypnotic Suggestions?
200
Hypnosis is the result of an exaggerated division of internal consciousness.
What is Divided Consciousness Theory
200
In 1997, a bus driver, who had been kidnapped and held captive with 26 children in the bus, was able, when hypnotized, to remember the kidnappers’ license plate to lead to an arrest.
What is an example of hypnosis and memory
200
True or False: Hypnosis has been used in therapeutic settings to treat medical problems, however it is difficult to separate the effects of hypnosis from a placebo effect.
True
300
Suggestions made to the volunteer that will make them behave differently upon hearing a key word/cue even after the hypnosis is “done”.
What are Posthypnotic suggestions?
300
A “mob mentality” leads to otherwise law-abiding sports fans to engage in destructive behavior while celebrating a big win.
What is Social Influence Theory
300
Memory may have come back anyway
What is an argument against memory with hypnosis?
300
An attempt to turn back the clock to an earlier time in the subject's life.
What is an age regression?
400
Hypnosis can lead to the subjects following the order but so can any other type of strong recommendation
What is an argument against hypnosis?
400
A leader may seem to “cast a spell” on followers who then behave in ways they would have difficulty imagining before the cult experience.
What is Social Influence Theory
400
False Memory
When your brain may not be able to locate all the pieces and they fill the holes with plausible events that could have occurred.
400
People who receive treatment of any kind tend to show more improvement than those who receive no treatment
What is Placebo Effect
500
When someone laughs at a movie because someone told them it was a funny movie.
What are hypnotic suggestions?
500
When someone goes for a long run, they may get caught up in thinking so that a mile goes unnoticed. But they continue to monitor traffic, curbs they might trip over, and their route.
What is Divided Consciousnesses Theory
500
The subject may manufacture the untrue memory or details to please the hypnotist. And later to be unable to distinguish between the real and unreal
What is state of suggestibility?
500
True or False: Holding your arm in ice water for 30 seconds. Hypnotized subjects, report little pain under the same condition.