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PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Standard Control and Dissociation Mental Control: Standard Condition (No Dissociation) Activity is Guided Consciously Ex. Driving a car; watching the road Standard Mental Control: –Consciousness and action are joined Dissociation: The splitting of conscious cognitive activity –Originally thought due to trauma and repression Neo-Dissociationism (Ernest Hilgard) –Cognitive barriers can be established so as to isolate or modularize some part of the mind

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Mental Dissociation Example: –Highway Hypnosis (to right) –When you are thinking, who is driving? Second Example: –Talking to yourself –When you are talking…who is listening? Mental Control: Dissociative Condition Consciousness of Activity Ex. Thinking about a Relationship. Non-Conscious Guiding of Activity Ex: Driving

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach The Classic Suggestion Effect… In the classic suggestion effect: – the psychologist’s (or other’s) instructions are for the participant to imagine a movement or idea. –Some people will then make the movement or imagine the idea vividly –The experience may be felt as outside of their control Although the 'classic suggestion effect' is not hypnosis, it predicts ability at hypnosis.

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance 1.Suppression of Planning –Loss of initiative –Lack of desire to carry out action –Hilgard Party study

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance 2.Redistribution of Attention –Attention is sluggish, unfocussed –Selective inattention –Ex. (from James) Make a stroke on paper or blackboard, and tell the subject it is not there,and he will see nothing but the clean paper or the board. Next, he not looking, surround the original stroke with other strokes exactly like it and ask him what he sees. He will point out one by one all the new strokes and omit the original one every time…Obviously, then, he is not blind to the kind of stroke in the least. He is blind only to one particular stroke…and he must distinguish it with great accuracy…in order to remain blind to it…

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance 3.Increased Availability of Emotional and Visual Memories –Hypnotic mood inductions –Peter Barach depth experiment

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance 4.Reduction in Reality Testing and Tolerance for Reality Distortion –Falsified personal memories Ex. Can suggest memories which simply aren’t true –Trance Logic: Problem solving within the logic of the trance Ex. …determining which person is real and which is hallucinated…

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance 5.Increased Suggestibility 6.Enhanced Role Behavior –Ex. On a hypnotically suggested magic carpet ride, a participant may complain that she forgot her sweater and is cold 7.Amnesia for hypnosis –Uncertain characteristic: Too many motives

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Is Self-Control Always Conscious? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Post-Hypnotic Suggestions Participant instructed to perform an act (e.g., cross the room and open an umbrella) at a cue… Instructed to forget the hypnotic instruction after awakening from hypnosis Asked why they did it: Incorrectly explained the reason as “wanting to test the umbrella” upon seeing the cloudy day through the window.

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