HYPNOSIS

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HYPNOSIS

• Major effects
• increased suggestibility
• dissociation
• distortions
• loss of volition
• possible improvement in memory
• Who is Susceptible?
• 15 highly susceptible / 10 highly resistant
• fantasy prone individuals
• absorption factor
• expectancy factor

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HYPNOSIS

• Trance view altered state of consciousness
• involuntary responses elicited by suggestions
• split in levels of consciousness
• amnesic barriers may form
• Non-trance view social interaction
• no special processes
• purposeful, goal directed action
• subjects interpretation based on relationship to
  the influencer