PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ernest Hilgard, Ideomotor Phenomenon, Suggestibility

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Know the key terminology for hypnosis, meditation, and disorders of consciousness. Apply your knowledge of hypnosis to identify what it can and cannot do. Techniques such as hypnosis and meditation are ways of inducing what many regard as an altered state of consciousness. Hypnosis hypnosis: procedure of inducing a heightened state of suggestibility. Hypnotists can only increase the likelihood that subjects will perform simple behaviours that they have performed or have thought of before, and would be willing to do when in a normal conscious state. Hypnosis is based on the interaction between automatic (unconscious) thoughts and behaviours and a supervisory system (executive processing) Social-cognitive theory: emphasizes the degree to which beliefs and expectations contribute to increased suggestibility, expectations in uence hypnotic responses. Can be used to treat a number of different physical and psychological conditions. Most practical use is in the treatment of pain, generally intense, temporary pain.