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PSY 355 Attention and Consciousness-Unlearning Through Hypnosis

Study on consciousness, attention, and hypnosis in psychology.

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    Running head: ATTENTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS - UNLEARNING THROUGH 1 PSY 355 Attention and Consciousness - Unlearning Through Hypnosis Pys/355 University of Phoenix Wha t was the purpose of this study How does this study apply to the real world? If you were doing the next step in this study, which research question would you develop? How could you test it? How could you apply the steps of the scientific method to test your hypothesis?

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    ATTENTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS - UNLEARNING THROUGH 2 Attention and Consciousness - Unlearning Through Hypnosis Amir Raz a brain researcher wants to know if we can unlearn learned behavior through hypnosis. By reviewing his experiment and research , we will be a ble to see if hypnosis can work for other learned behaviors. We will further extend Raz’s research process by using the scientific method in the application of smoking. With results to prove or disprove the use of hypnosis to the real world. Hypnosis was created on the view of mesmerism, which was crea ted by Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer during the 18 th century. Amir Raz, from New York State Psychiatric Institute , uses hypnoses in his research presented in the video “Attention and Consciousness - Unlearning Through Hypnosis”. Throughout the history of hypnosis , there shows improvements in the quality of life. The most significant change in the view and practice of psychology happened in the 20 th century. Style changed from direct instruction to a trance induced (b ased on subtly persuasive language) (History of Hypnosis, 2012). Brought about by therapists such as Milton E. Erickson (History of Hypnosis, 2012). T he work of British psychologists Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell in the field of neurological science and brain imaging, linked hypnosis to Rapid Eye Movement (REM ) (History of Hypnosis, 2012).This has helped resolve the “ stat e/non - state” debate, bringing hypnosis and hyp notic trance into everyday life (History of Hypnosis, 2012). M edical achievement s throughout history have been conducted through hypnosis. John Elliotson (1791 - 1868) reported 1,834 surgical operations without pain (Birdsong Hypnosis, 2011). Even the famous Sigmund Freud became fascinated with hypnosis though he abandoned it for other methods of unlocking repressed memories (Birdsong

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