Theories of Hypnosis: Non-State Explanations

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Theories of Hypnosis: Non-State Explanations
  1. Non-state explanations
    1. suggests that hypnotic induction affects behaviours such as relaxation/compliance, making 'hypnotised' individuals behave differently from 'waking' ones
      1. Socio-cognitive theory of hypnosis (SCT)
        1. Wagstaff (1986) - hypnotic induction does not result in a different state, but it changes 2 processes: compliance and belief
          1. Compliance
            1. describes the behaviour of someone who is conforming/obeying
              1. refers to situations where a person changes their behaviour to go along with others
                1. in hypnosis the subject complies with the expectations of the hypnotist
                  1. EG. a hypnotised subject who is offered the suggestion that "you can feel your arm rising on it's own" is likely to oblige/comply by creating that feeling
                    1. motivated to avoid the embarrassment of failing, or avoid appearing 'disobedient
                  2. Belief
                    1. compliance is volitional

                      Anmerkungen:

                      • volitional = deliberate
                      1. key point is that a hypnotised person believes their responses are not volitional
                        1. this belief that leads them to regard the hypnotism as 'real'
                        2. Valins (1966) did a study with male PP's and they were required to rate images of semi-rude women
                          1. found that PP's misinterpreted information and subsequently tried to offer rational explanation for their behaviour
                            1. in the case of hypnosis, subjects explain their compliance in terms of being hypnotised and not in control of their own behvaiour
                        3. The ESC process
                          1. Expectation, Strategy, Compliance
                            1. hypnotic subjects may seek experiences which confirm the hypnotists suggestion
                              1. EG. when a hypnotist says "your hand will feel lighter and float upwards" they may interpret a twitch within this framework
                              2. the 'task' for a hypnotic subject has 3 components: decide what the hypnotist 'wants', employ cognitive strategies to produce experiences, and resort to behavioural compliance (if fails)
                                1. EG. in hypnotic amnesia, ESC suggests that the subject judges that forgetting is a requirement of the situation (expectation), then they either employ inattention to block memory (strategy), or is unable to generate the required response and fakes it (compliance)
                          2. Evaluation
                            1. Compliance
                              1. if subjects are merely compliant then we would expect at least some of them to admit that they are pretending
                                1. however, Kihlstrom (1980) found even when appeals are made to their honesty, they don't admit
                                  1. however, Spanos (1986) suggests that hypnotised subjects fail to admit to pretending because they have invested so heavily in the role of being hypnotised and this causes them to reinterpret their experiences
                              2. Compliance and susceptibility
                                1. highly susceptible subjects should be generally more compliant
                                  1. this is not the case
                                  2. Orne (1970) tested PP's' hypnotic susceptibility and asked them to return a stack of postcards
                                    1. more postcards returned, more compliant
                                      1. found that highly susceptible subjects were not more compliant, if anything low susceptibility subjects were (perhaps because they felt they had 'failed' by being unhypnotisable)
                                    2. The ESC process
                                      1. a key strength - attempts to explain the experience of the subject
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