1. Unit 5: States of Consciousness Day 2: (Hypnosis &) Drugs
DAILY COMMENTARY (in a spiral notebook!):
Using the dream theories you worked with yesterday, analyze your own dream that you wrote down yesterday.
Essential Question
How are altered states of consciousness experienced?
Objectives (write this down!):
I can: evaluate the effects of hypnosis
I can discuss why people do drugs

2. Unit 5: States of Consciousness Day 2: (Hypnosis &) Drugs
For Tonight:
Myers
Vocab cards
Complete Drug Chart
Today: DC
Hypnosis
Drug Research
Group Review

3. Dream Analysis Discussion

4. Hypnosis
A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
OBJECTIVE 11| Define hypnosis, and note some similarities between the behavior of hypnotized people and that of motivated unhypnotized people.
Hypnos: Greek god of sleep

5. Mesmerism
Credit for the popularity of hypnosis goes to Franz Anton Mesmer, a physician, who mistakenly thought he discovered “animal magnetism.” Some of his patients experienced a trancelike state and felt better upon waking up.
Franz Mesmer ( )

6. Aspects of Hypnosis
Posthypnotic Suggestion: Suggestion carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized.
Posthypnotic Amnesia: Supposed inability to recall what one experienced during hypnosis.

7. Hypnotic Feats
Strength, stamina, and perceptual and memory abilities similarly affect those who are hypnotized and those who are not hypnotized.

8. Facts and Falsehood
Those who practice hypnosis agree that its power resides in the subject’s openness to suggestion.
Can anyone experience hypnosis?
Yes, to some extent.
Can hypnosis enhance recall of forgotten events?
OBJECTIVE 12| Discuss the characteristics of people who are susceptible to hypnosis, and evaluate claims that hypnosis can influence people’s memory, will, health, and perception of pain.
No.

9. Facts and Falsehood
Can hypnosis force people to act against their will?
No.
Can hypnosis be therapeutic?
Yes. Self-suggestion can heal too.
Can hypnosis alleviate pain?
Yes. Lamaze can do that too.

10. Is Hypnosis an Altered State of Consciousness?
Social Influence Theory: Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role.
Divided Consciousness Theory: Hypnosis is a special state of dissociated (divided) consciousness (Hilgard, 1986, 1992).
Courtesy of News and Publications Service, Stanford University
OBJECTIVE 13| Give arguments for and against hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness.
(Hilgard, 1992)

11. Both Theories
Mimi Forsyth

12. Near-Death Experiences
After a close brush with death, many people report an experience of moving through a dark tunnel with a light at the end. Under the influence of hallucinogens, others report bright lights at the center of their field of vision.
(From “Hallucinations” by R.K. Siegel. Copyright
© 1977 Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.)
OBJECTIVE 21| Describe the near-death and the controversy over whether it provides evidence for mind-body dualism.

13. Mind-Body Problem
Near-death experiences raise the mind-body issue. Can the mind survive the dying body?
Dualism: Dualists believe that mind (non-physical) and body (physical) are two distinct entities that interact.
Monism: Monists believe that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.

14. Drug Research
Complete the graphic organizer on drugs and their effects:
Google: “mouse party”

15. Group Review Activity

16. Quick Vocab Review