PS271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stage Hypnosis, Ernest Hilgard, Trait Theory
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Inducion procedure in which people are told about being hypnoized and are suggested to perform certain tasks: tasks range from simple ones used in hypnosis research to entertaining performances of stage hypnosis. Performing dental work without the aid of painkillers. Used by police invesigators to help witnesses remember crime details. Psychotherapists use it for dealing with a wide variety of client problems. Psychoanalyic theorists: hypnosis taps an aspect of the human mind that is otherwise diicult to reach, paricipants experience an altered state of consciousness, like sleeping. Cogniive and social theorists: reject the noion that hypnoized people operate under an altered state of awareness, assert that things people do under hypnosis can be explained in terms of basic psychological processes. Deeply hypnoized people experience a division of their conscious mind: hypnoized part enters a type of altered state, another part remains aware of what is going on during the hypnoic session.
