U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.3: Hypnosis, Suggestibility, Color Vision
7 Nov 2016
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Therapists sometimes hypnotize patients and give them posthypnotic suggestions to help them diet or quit smoking but evidence suggests that hypnosis has quite modest effects on these behaviors. Hypnosis is a trancelike state in which conscious awareness is separated, or dissociated, from other aspects of consciousness. Seems unlikely that a person could alter their brain activity to please hypnotists, even if that hypnotists is a psychological researcher, and numerous brain imaging studies have supported the dissociation theory. Stroop test involves naming the color in which a color"s name is printed: according to the stroop effect the tendency to automatically read the word interferes with the process of naming the color. Participants who received the posthypnotic suggestion that they would be looking at meaningless symbols instead of words: the participants followed the suggestion and did not show the interference of the. Stroop test: participants perceived the stimuli as nonwords.
