AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It proposes that hypnotic phenomenon are produced through a dissociation within high level control systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -His research on the hidden observer during hypnotic pain management was intended to provide support for his neodissociationist theory. This theory held that a person undergoing hypnosis can still observe his or her own pain without consciously experiencing any suffering.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hilgard’s (1986) neodissociation theory, responses are hypothesized to be due to a division of consciousness into 2 or more simultaneous streams, separated by an amnesic barrier that prevents access to suggestion-related executive functions, monitoring functions, or both.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ‘hidden observer’ was Hilgard’s metaphor for the hypnotic subject’s continuous subconscious registration of the actual stimulus state of affairs and descriptive label for the means by which this information can be accessed (Hilgard, 1973, 1977, 1992a, 1992b).

Detailed explanation-5: -Dissociated Control Theory. According to dissociated control theory, in hypnosis, people’s behavior is. governed less by higher, executive control and more by unmodulated lower. subsystems of control, compared with nonhypnotic circumstances (Woody & Bowers, 1994).