PSYC 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Information Processing, Ernest Hilgard, Sensory Cortex
16 Dec 2016
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After a few minutes of hypnotic induction, you may experience hypnosis (a social interaction in which one person (hypnotist) suggests to another (subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts or behaviors will spontaneously occur. Their power resides in subjects" openness to suggestion, their ability ot focus on certain images or behaviors. Can anyone experience hypnosis: to some extent, we are all open to suggestion. When people stand upright with their eyes closed and told they are swaying back and forth, they will sway a little: highly hypnotizable people (20%) are typically more absorbed in imaginative activities. This is referred to as hypnotic ability ability to focus attention totally on a task, to become imaginatively absorbed in it, to entertain fanciful possibilities. Can hypnosis enhance recall of forgotten events: most people think all of our experiences are available in our brain for recall. We don"t encode everything that occurs around us.
