AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis; induced by the hypnotist’s suggestion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypnosis is a social interaction in which one person, designated the subject, responds to suggestions offered by another person, designated the hypnotist, for imaginative experiences involving alterations in conscious perception and memory, and the voluntary control of action.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sociocognitive theories reject the traditional view that hypnotic experiences require the presence of an altered state of consciousness. Rather, the same social and cognitive variables that determine mundane complex social behaviours are said to determine hyp-notic responses and experiences.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hypnosis is a social interaction in which one person responds to suggestions by another person for experiences involving alterations in perception, memory, and the voluntary control of action. As such, hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness which occurs in the context of a social interaction.

Detailed explanation-5: -Social influence theory – Supporters of social influence theory believe that no special physical conditions marks hypnosis as anything other than normal consciousness – the natural state of awareness we experience when we are fully awake and alert.