PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lamaze Technique, Hypnotic Susceptibility, Suggestibility
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Not magic -- the magic is in your mind. Hypnosis is a willing and cooperative state in which you relinquish control of your behavior to the hypnotist and accept some distortion of reality. Eegs show that you"re in a relaxed awake state. Sensory input not blocked (still see, sell, and feel. Experience: extreme focus on one thing (e. g. , the. People could be treated by placing them in a relaxed sleep-like state. Surgeon who wanted to develop an anesthetic: fixation technique, neuro-hypnology (hypnosis) Hypnotic susceptibility is the ability to be hypnotized; it"s a personality characteristic.
