BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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guides people’s actions when they are hypnotized.
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counters the effects of hypnosis.
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remains aware of what is going on during hypnosis.
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gives signals to the hypnotist.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Quick Reference. In a person who is hypnotized, a part of the mind that functions separately, experiencing things of which the hypnotized person appears to be unaware.
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: -The “hidden observer” was introduced as a metaphor to describe a memory structure based on information that the person had registered and stored in memory without being aware that the information had been processed (Hilgard, 1973b, 1977).
Detailed explanation-4: -This hidden observer during hypnosis is able to observe themselves and their pain without having to directly experience any negative feelings themselves. Patients who are being analgesically hypnotized and are ‘under’ reporting not pain when asked if a hidden part of them could feel their pain.