5:22 - consciousness and hypnosis Flashcards
cognition
mental processes
consciousness
awareness of ourself and our environment
spontaneously occuring states
daydreaming, drowsinesss, and dreaming
physiologically induced states
hallucinations, orgasms, starvation
psychologically induced states
sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditiation
hypnosis
convinced by another person that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors are changed
hypnosis cannot…
recall forgotten memories
hypnosis can affect…
a sense of danger/morality and relieve pain
posthypnotic suggestion
instructing a patient to complete an action after hypnosis
an authoritative person in a legitimate context can induce people — hypnotized or not — to…
perform unlikely acts
dissociation
a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously
