Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liposuction, Nicholas Spanos, Hypnotic Susceptibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: barus

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Saturday, february 18, 2017 altered states of consciousness hypnosis. Standoff hypnotic susceptibility scale (shss) ernest hilgard and weitzenhoffer, Harvard group scale of hypnotic susceptibility adapted from shss for group administration. Carleton university responsiveness to suggest scale (curss) in which 7 suggestions are used. If an individual response as suggested, then you pass that item, the total number of items passed = score of hypnotic susceptibility. Virtuosos = score perfect, or almost perfect (extremely susceptible) 4/7 items on curss are motor movements, only 3 are cognitive: orne. To compare the behaviour of hypnotized participants to that of non hypnotized participants who have been instructed to pretend they are hypnotized. Most of the simulating subjects did not differ behaviourally from those in deep trance. For this reason, high hypnotizable individuals are used as reals and low hypnotizable are used as simulators. Maintains that hypnotic phenomenon can be explained in the same terms as social behaviours without recourse to any additional psychological constructs.