PSYC 109W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chaos Theory, Suggestibility, Cognitive Revolution
9 Dec 2012
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Awareness of internal and external stimuli: external events, internal sensations, self as being unique, thoughts about experiences. Sigmund freud- variations in levels of awareness. Brain abnormalities, near-death experiences, d j vu, esp. The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing: growth of monism fmris, etc. Cocaine blocks reuptake of neurotransmitters, yielding the rush. When cocaine is gone, neurotransmitters are quickly re-absorbed and their absence causes the crash. Systematic procedure that produces a heightened state of suggestibility. Effects produced through hypnosis: anesthesia, sensory distortions and hallucinations, disinhibition, posthypnotic suggestions and amnesia. Orne & evans (1965: control group instructed to pretend , unhynotized subjects performed the same acts as the hypnotized ones. Posthypnotic suggestion: suggestion carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized, used by some clinicians to control undesired symptoms and behaviours. Dissociation: split in consciousness (selective attention, allows some thoughts and behaviours to occur simultaneously with others.
