PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Narcolepsy, Constipation, Oxycodone

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Janel Fergusson

Document Summary

All sorts of health conditions- caused by improper fluid flow in body. When put under his treatment- with hand movements- can get better- since his hand movements can move the fluid to make it work right. Reline fluid in body- make them better. Manipulate consciousness- change something physically: can study changes in normal resting state. Hypnosis: a systematic procedure that produces a heightened state of suggestibility. More likely to take the suggestion of others: james braid: Anesthesia- instead of using anesthesia- can memorized them to think that they art in any pain. Use hypnosis to induce/ change perception so that they don"t feel pain. Used in clinical setting: you need to be relaxed, compliance, faking. Think its people faking it: reliving . You are removed from situation- but you feeling in a different way: perform otherwise impossible tasks. Hypnotic susceptibility: 3 factors- to whether you can put into sense in memorize- higher factors- more likely, absorption.