PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Analgesic
2 Feb 2017
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Original title: hypnotic behavior: a cognitive, social, psychological perspective . Original place of publication: research communications in psychology, psychiatry, and behavior: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Wanted to see what effects related to hypnotic trances could be explained by simpler manners. Believed that behaviors in hypnotic trances are within the range or normal human voluntary activity. Hypnotic behavior of pain insensitivity could be a result of the need of a subject to responds to demands rather than assuming a dissociated state. Those who were expecting the hypnosis condition, rated the analgesic effect lower possibly because they were expecting or hoping the hypnosis would be more effective than self-distraction. Does the idea of hypnosis need to be reevaluated for its merits: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area)
