PSYCH101 Final: Lecture Notes - Hypnosis If you fell asleep during the hypnosis lecture, then lucky you! because I stayed awake and took comprehensive notes!

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Colin Mac Leod

Document Summary

Had to notion to attract someone else"s mind to his. He would relax the person, take control of their attention. Hypnosis a temporary state of heightened suggestibility, usually accompanied by a trance-like state. Posthypnotic suggestion a direction given by the hypnotists to the subject while hypnotized that suggest s/he perform a certain behaviour once s/he has returned to normal consciousness and a cue is give. Highly hypnotizable move through the stages faster. Age regression spoke german but understood english. Not hypnotizable participant blocks out the idea of hypnosis. Posthypnotic amnesia suggestion to the subject that s/he will not remember the event during hypnosis afterward until a specific cue is give. Used hypnosis with his hysterical patients early on in the development of psychoanalysis. Tool to get his patient relaxed and to get underneath to the subconscious. Came to mistrust it and stop using it. Discovered that people make stuff up under hypnosis.