Consciousness
the temporary state that differs significantly from a normal walking state: includes sleep, meditation, a coma, hypnosis, or the influence of drugs.
What is an altered state of consciousness?
Distinctive brain activity
Unconscious information processing
What are biological influences on hypnosis?
our awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
Since 1960, under the influence of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, consciousness has resumed its place as an important area of research
What is the place of consciousness in psychology’s history?
Presence of an authoritative person in legitimate context
Role playing “good subject”
What are social-cultural influences on hypnosis?
a social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person (the hypnotist's) suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur
What is hypnosis
the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus or a group of stimuli
What is selective attention?
The theory that hypnosis is like sleep, a distinct state in the brain, where your mental processes work differently, and you're not necessarily aware of what's happening as if you were awake.
What is altered state theory?
the features of consciousness experienced by an individual at a particular point in time.
What is a state of consciousness?
Psychologist who thought of consciousness as a continuously moving, shifting, and unbroken stream.
Who is William James?
The theory that believes that hypnosis is like roleplay; you're aware of your surroundings, but you're just playing along.
What is non-state theory?
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 desired symptoms and behaviors
What is a posthypnotic suggestion?
the principle that information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and non-conscious tracks
What is dual processing?
Focused attention
Expectations
Heightened suggestibility
Dissociation between normal sensations and conscious awareness
What are psychological influences on hypnosis?
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others
What is dissociation?