PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -(B) Role theory explains that hypnosis works because people play the “role” of a hypnotized person. Highly suggestible people are more easily hypnotized and have richer fantasy lives. Dissociation theory explains that hypnosis works by actually dividing our consciousness.

Detailed explanation-2: -Theories of Hypnosis Altered-state theory occurs when a person is actually hypnotized and is therefore in a different, or altered, state of mind. Dissociation theory states that hypnosis causes a person to actively or voluntarily split their consciousness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Socio-cognitive theories attempt to explain hypnotic phenomena in terms of normal cognitive and social psychological processes such as imagery, role enactment, compliance, response expectancy, and various combinations of these.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hilgard‘s neo-dissociation theory of hypnosis is a classical « state theory ». He suggests that hypnotic phenomena are generated by dissociation within high-level control systems. Essentially, hypnotic induction is said to divide the functioning of the executive control system (ECS) into different flows.

Detailed explanation-5: -The social cognitive theory of hypnosis states that the individual in a hypnotic state performs the social role of a hypnotized individual.