PSY372H1 Lecture Notes - Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory
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Changes in perception suggested under hypnosis are really just changes in verbal report of perceptions. Ponzo illusion: even 2 lines are of the same length, a farther object would have to be longer than a nearer one for both to produce retinal images of the same size. Some people are more suggestible than others - sway test: standing upright vs sway; people sway are more suggestible and more likely to be hypnotized; 20% of population are suggestible. You can"t make people do things against their will during hypnosis people who are hypnotized give explanations about their behavior. Hypnosis can be therapeutic anxiety/asthma; mainly due to placebo effect, it works when people believe it"ll work. Hypnosis can"t induce age-regression or can help refreshed memories": navigate vocab of 9yo & vocab of an adult; results are not consistent. People don"t have better recall under hypnosis: forensic research: witness who has been hypnotized isn"t allowed give testimony.