PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.2: Ernest Hilgard, Suggestibility, Terri Schiavo Case
65
PSY100H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
65 documents
Document Summary
5. 2) pg. 198) altered states of consciousness: hypnosis, meditation, and disorders of consciousness. Hypnosis a procedure of inducing a heightened state of suggestibility (three important kinds of suggestions) it can increase the likelihood of someone performing tasks but cannot make someone do something against their will. Ideomotor suggestions related to specific actions that could be performed, such as adopting a specific position. Challenge suggestions indicate actions not supposed to be performed so the subject appears to lose the ability to perform an action. Cognitive-perceptual suggestions involve a subject remembering or forgetting specific information, or experiencing altered perception. Hypnosis is based on the interaction between unconscious thoughts and behaviour, and a supervisory system/executive processing. Dissociation theory explains hypnosis as a unique state in which consciousness is divided into two parts: an observer and a hidden observer. Example: when you first begin driving, you are a single, highly focused observer of your actions and your actions require lots of executive processing.
