Chapter 8-hypnosis

Question 0

Percentages for medium, high, and low susceptibility of hypnosis

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High-10-15%
Medium-65-70%
Low-20%

Question 1

Hypnosis

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A procedure in which a researcher, clinician, or hypnotist suggests that a person will experience changed in sensation, perceptions, thoughts, feelings or behaviors

Question 2

Test for hypnotic susceptibility

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Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

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Hypnotic induction

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Refers to inducing hypnosis by first asking a person to either stare at an object or close his or her eyes and then suggesting that the person is becoming very relaxed

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The altered state theory of hypnosis

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States that hypnosis puts a person into an altered state of consciousness, during which the person is disconnected from reality

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Sociocognitive theory of hypnosis

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Says that behaviors observed during hypnosis result not from being hypnotized, but rather from having the special ability of responding to imaginative suggestions and social pressures

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Imaginative suggestibility

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• part of the sociocognitive theory of hypnosis
• the ability to experience and perform a wide variety of unusual when given the suggestion, with or without being hypnotized

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Hypnotic analgesia

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Refers to a reduction in pain reported by clients after they had undergone hypnosis and received suggestion that reduced their anxiety and promoted relaxation

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Posthypnotic suggestion

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Given to the subject during hypnosis about performing a particular behavior to a specific cue when the subject comes out of hypnosis

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Posthypnotic amnesia

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Not remembering what happened during hypnosis if the hypnotist suggested that, upon awakening, the person would forget what took place during hypnosis

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Age regression

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Refers to subjects under hypnosis being asked to regress, or return in time, to an earlier age, such as early childhood

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Imagined perception

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Refers to experiencing sensations, perceiving stimuli, or performing behaviors that come from ones imagination

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Psychoactive drugs

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Chemicals that affect our nervous systems and, as a result, may alter consciousness and awareness, influence how we sense and perceive things, and modify our moods, feelings, emotions, and thoughts

Question 13

Brain parts that make up the reward/pleasure center

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Nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area and involves the neurotransmitter dopamine