acting as if you are hypnotized
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Acting As If You Are Hypnotized . By: Lindsey Peck and Colleen Ahearn. Background. Common belief that hypnotized was a separate/unique state of awareness Mesmerize acquired from Mesmer created first example of hypnosis Used by Freud in psychoanalytic techniques - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Acting As If You Are Hypnotized By: Lindsey Peck and Colleen Ahearn
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BackgroundCommon belief that hypnotized was a separate/unique state of awareness
Mesmerize acquired from Mesmer created first example of hypnosis
Used by Freud in psychoanalytic techniques
Ernest Hilgard – 6 descriptions of hypnosis
Nicholas Spanos – does NOT involve alternate state of consciousness
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MethodFindings taken from 16 studies
Involved in all experiments
Purpose to contradict Hilgard and popular belief that hypnosis is a unique state of consciousness
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Findings and Conclusions
Behavior is involuntary
Suggestion vs. instruction
Raising arm vs. lowering arm
People become absorbed in these imaginary strategies and convince themselves behavior is involuntary
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Findings and Conclusions
Creation of expectations
3 main studies1. Difference in lectures2. Comparing experiences with vivid imagery 3. Altering amount of information given about experiment
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Significance Not denying the actual existence of hypnosis
Hypnosis not an altered state of consciousness but result of motivated, goal-directed, social behavior
Hypnosis still exists because people need to believe in a last resort problem solver
Changed psychology with an alternative experimentally based explanation for hypnosis behavior
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Recent Applications and Alternative Theories
Article in 1997, mirroring Spanos theory and supporting it
In 2003, Lynn completed a study of hypnosis as a therapeutic practice to recover repressed memories from childhood is faulty
Although he dies in a plane crash in 1994 his research has carried on
Many articles later (1993, 1998, 1999, 2000) on refuting Spanos’ theory and supporting Hilgard’s
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Now It’s Your Turn