AP Psych unit 1 (Hypnosis and Meditation)

Frenz Mesmar

Claimed to use the power of “animal magnetism“ to “heal“ various afflictions

Mesmerized

To be fascinated to the point of having one's attention completely captured, as if under a spell or in a hypnotic state

Analgesia

Treatment of acute and chronic pain (Used by dentist/doctors as a substitue for anesthetic)

Sensory distortion and hallucinations

Sensing things that are not present, or failing to sense things that are really there

Disinhibition

Effect of hyponsis that removes boundaries that would typically prevent subject from preforming specific actions (social norms, illegal acts, etc)

Posthypnotic amnesia

Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis, induced by hypnotist’s suggestion

Posthypnotic suggestion

A suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to control undesired symptoms or behaviors

Dissociation

A split in consciousness which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

Role Playing

People “play along“ with how hypnotized people are supposed to act

Altered State of Consciousness

Divided consciousness (Dissociation)

Meditation

Refers to a family pf practices that train attention to heighten awareness and bring mental processes under greater voluntary control

Focused attention

Attentions is concentrated on a specific object/image/sound/sensation

Open monitering

Attention is directed to the contents of one’s moment-to-moment experience in a nonjudgmental and nonreactive way

Hypnosis

A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggest to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously ocuur