PSY 805 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Kanji, Autonomic Nervous System, Suggestibility

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 805
• Professor: Alexandra Fiocco

Document Summary

Deep relaxation strategies: progressive relaxation, autogenics, and guided imagery that one can employ to reduce diffuse physiological arousal. Progressive muscle relaxation: deep relaxation technique pioneered by jacobson that consists of tensing and relaxing different muscle groups. Muscle sense awareness: ability to differentiate the tense muscles from relaxed ones. Muscle fibers elongate, are more relaxed, can be trained to reach a zero firing threshold. Somatic muscular tension as a barometer of relaxation levels and interventions aimed at reducing this as a key to relaxation. By learning to relax the somatic nervous system, jacobson believed the sympathetic branch of the ans would follow. Wolpe created systematic desensitization out of jacobson"s theory. Abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation: skeletal muscles broken down into 4 groups (arms and hands, face and neck, shoulders, chest, back and abdomen, and legs and feet), use of a cue word to begin relaxation.