PSYCH 1100 Lecture : nov.5.docx

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Thomas Kondzielewski

Document Summary

Tricks of the trade: waking suggestibility any instruction. : people on stage do not want to spoil the act, so they will follow: selection of responsive subjects group on stage and does not follow instructions is dismissed. : any volunteer who does not get hypnotized in the: hypnotists as director: show"s stars, and they will act like it. The mesmerized mind: studies may lead to more effective treatments for a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders, assert psychologists peter w. halligan and david oakley in the. June issue of trends in cognitive sciences: when hypnotized people act on a hypnotic suggestion, they really do see, hear and feel differently, such research shows. When they"re told to see colors, for example, the color-processing parts of their brains light up despite the absence of any real color in view. When they are told to envision color objects in black and white, these color- processing areas are less active.