PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF… Getting Started Copyright © 2007...

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 10: DYNAMICS OF SELF…

Getting Started

Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

Dynamics of the Self

Focus on Non-Conscious Control

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Is Self-Control Always Conscious?

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Standard Control and Dissociation

Mental Control:

Standard Condition

(No Dissociation)

Activity is Guided

Consciously

Ex. Driving a car;

watching the road

• Standard Mental Control: – Consciousness and action

are joined• Dissociation: The splitting

of conscious cognitive activity– Originally thought due to

trauma and repression• Neo-Dissociationism

(Ernest Hilgard)– Cognitive barriers can be

established so as to isolate or modularize some part of the mind




Mental Dissociation• Example:

– Highway Hypnosis (to right)

– When you are thinking, who is driving?

• Second Example:– Talking to yourself– When you are talking…who

is listening?

Mental Control:

Dissociative

Condition

Consciousness

of Activity

Ex. Thinking

about a

Relationship.

Non-Conscious

Guiding of

Activity

Ex: Driving




The Classic Suggestion Effect…

• In the classic suggestion effect:– the psychologist’s (or other’s) instructions are for the

participant to imagine a movement or idea. – Some people will then make the movement or

imagine the idea vividly – The experience may be felt as outside of their control

• Although the 'classic suggestion effect' is not hypnosis, it predicts ability at hypnosis.




Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance

1. Suppression of Planning – Loss of initiative– Lack of desire to carry out action– Hilgard Party study




Characteristics of Hypnotic Trance2. Redistribution of Attention

– Attention is sluggish, unfocussed– Selective inattention– Ex. (from James) Make a stroke on paper or blackboard, and

tell the subject it is not there,and he will see nothing but the clean paper or the board. Next, he not looking, surround the original stroke with other strokes exactly like it and ask him what he sees. He will point out one by one all the new strokes and omit the original one every time…Obviously, then, he is not blind to the kind of stroke in the least. He is blind only to one particular stroke…and he must distinguish it with great accuracy…in order to remain blind to it…





3. Increased Availability of Emotional and Visual Memories

– Hypnotic mood inductions– Peter Barach depth experiment





4. Reduction in Reality Testing and Tolerance for Reality Distortion

– Falsified personal memories• Ex. Can suggest memories which simply aren’t

true

– Trance Logic: Problem solving within the logic of the trance • Ex. …determining which person is real and which

is hallucinated…





5. Increased Suggestibility

6. Enhanced Role Behavior – Ex. On a hypnotically suggested magic

carpet ride, a participant may complain that she forgot her sweater and is cold

7. Amnesia for hypnosis– Uncertain characteristic: Too many motives




Post-Hypnotic Suggestions

• Participant instructed to perform an act (e.g., cross the room and open an umbrella) at a cue…

• Instructed to forget the hypnotic instruction after awakening from hypnosis

• Asked why they did it: Incorrectly explained the reason as “wanting to test the umbrella” upon seeing the cloudy day through the window.


What Are Dynamics of Self Control?


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