HISTORY Psychology began as a science

HISTORY

Psychology began as a science of consciousness

Behaviorists argued about alienating consciousness from psychology

However, after 1960, mental concepts (consciousness) started reentering psychology

CONSCIOUSNESS

Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

UNCONSCIOUSNESS

What we are unaware of

HYPNOSIS

A social interaction in which one person's (the subject) response to another person's (the hypnotist) suggestion(s)

Suggestions that certain perceptions, feeling, thoughts or behaviors will spontaneously occur

CAN ANYONE EXPERIENCE HYPNOSIS?

We are all open to suggestion

CAN HYPNOSIS ENHANCE RECALL OF FORGOTTEN EVENTS?

No

CAN HYPNOSIS FORCE PEOPLE TO ACT AGAINST THEIR WILL?

It can't make you do something you don't want to

CAN HYPNOSIS BE THERAPEUTIC?

Posthypnotic suggestions help alleviate headaches, asthma and stress-related skin disorders.

CAN HYPNOSIS RELIEVE PAIN?

Yes

SOCIAL INFLUENCE THEORY

Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role.

DIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS THEORY

Hypnosis is a special state of dissociated (divided) consciousness. We all have a "hidden observer"

Ernest Hilgard

Mimi Forsyth

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