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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Hypnotic"”.
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Memory in hypnotic age regression
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Psychology, 1954.
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Accounting for hypnotic phenomena via motivation and experimenter demands.
… attention tasks (Stroop) following specific hypnotic suggestions, individuals of higher hypnotic suggestibility have been found to perform in a manner not achievable without suggestions. Cold Control Theory (CCT) in contrast asserts that behaviour carried out following hypnotic suggestion is …
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Top-down Modulation of the Chromatic VEP with Hypnotic Suggestion
… of incoming information in the presence of hypnotic suggestion. Positive and negative suggestions were used to invoke hallucinations regarding stimulus presence and absence, as well as imagined stimulus occlusions. It was hypothesized that unlike attentional manipulations hypnotic …
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The Effects of Motivation and Expectation Upon Hypnotic Susceptibility: Areappraisal
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Hypnotic Behavior: The Differentiation of Trance and Demand Characteristic Variables
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The role of the prefrontal cortex in hypnotic and placebo analgesia.
… 2010), the role of the PFC in hypnosis and hypnotic suggestibility is inconclusive. Methods: Fifty-four participants (27 male) performed tasks known to tap either left (the Stroop Task; Stroop, 1938), right (the Hayling Task; Burgess & Shallice, 1996) or global PFC functions (Fluid IQ; …
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Subjective sleep quality in the elderly: relationship to anxiety, depressed mood, sleep beliefs, quality of life, and hypnotic use
… in older adults is associated with the use of hypnotics. This study was aimed at exploring possible differences between self-categorised good sleepers and poor sleepers on a range of variables, and the factors associated with the use of hypnotic medication amongst the elderly. Participants in …
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The effects of suggested analgesia on radiant heat pain as a function of hypnotic susceptibility: a signal detection analysis
… the effects of suggested analgesia and level of hypnotic susceptibility (high vs. low) on acute radiant heat pain using a signal detection theory model. A signal detection paradigm was used in order to differentiate between sensitivity (sensory-discriminative) and respose bias …
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Resolving conflict in hypnosis
… 2 presents Experiments 1 and 2, which explored hypnotic participants? capacity to manage conflict under different conditions. The findings indicated that cognitive and behavioural strategies that allow participants to avoid conflict are useful, but not essential, in managing hypnotic conflict. …
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Hypnosis, hypnotizability, memory and involvement in films
… dissociation and the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility and then viewed the two films (approx. 3min per film) after either an hypnotic induction or a non-hypnotic task (i.e., anagrams). State dissociation was evaluated at four points and recall was evaluated immediately after each …
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On Automation in Anesthesia
The thesis discusses closed-loop control of the hypnotic and the analgesic components of anesthesia. The objective of the work has been to develop a system which independently controls the intravenous infusion rates of the hypnotic drug propofol and analgesic drug remifentanil. The system is …
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Psychological correlates of the UFO abduction experience : the role of beliefs and indirect suggestions on abduction accounts obtained during hypnosis
… Part 2 examined the extent to which pre-hypnotic suggestions would be incorporated into hypnotic narratives of UFO abductions in a group of non-abductee volunteers. Suggestions resembling popular cultural aspects of abductions were incorporated into the hypnotic narratives of participants …
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Differential acquisition of automatic responses among high and low hypnotizable subjects
… the nonvolitional or automatic nature of hypnotic responding. The nature of these experiences contrasts with the hypnotic experiences of low hypnotizable (LH) individuals, which are typically described as willful, deliberate actions in accord with the provided suggestions. HH and LH groups …
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Bulimic Symptomatology in College Women: To What Degree are Hypnotizability, Dissociation, and Absorption of Relevance?
… equation modeling. Following 2 assessments of hypnotic susceptibility (Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A [Shor & Orne, 1962] & Group Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C [Crawford & Allen, 1982]), participants completed measures of eating disorder symptomatology …
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A psychophysiological investigation of the effects of a psychotropic agent (clozapine) upon sleep parameters of normal young adults
Hypnotic and sedative drugs have been regarded as the most expedient method for the treatment of insomnia in contemporary western culture and their prescription has increased dramatically (Karacan and Williams 1971; Oswald 1968). However, many of these drugs suppress REM sleep (Oswald 1968), cause …
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