Hypnosis Lost Memories
Can Hypnosis Help Recall Lost Memories or Objects? Hypnosis can be very difficult to perform. There are chances that it might not even work. There are even greater chances that the hypnosis results can be falsified by the person being hypnotized. The question is can hypnosis actually help people recall lost memories or objects from their childhood past? Many people have tried being hypnotized to remember things or locate lost memories. In that case, how do we know if hypnosis really works on people or not? Well, an experiment is performed with people who have never been hypnotized before and people who fake hypnosis to see what the subjects actually recall.
In determining if hypnosis can retrieve lost memories or recall childhood objects, …show more content…
In the case of these experiments it was the answers to seeing the objects and video. The subjects had the chance to see many different object and remember little details and things from all of them could have been triggering a memory. Following that after exiting the hypnotic state they were put in they would then do the same experiment over and see if the results were different than before.
For them to get an accurate result they would ask the mothers of the subjects to describe childhood objects that had meaning to them. When they were done they would leave and a posthypnotic analytic would take place. Once the students were no longer under hypnosis they would see the same items again and see if they could remember more of the items than before the hypnosis (Nash, at …show more content…
Then on top of that only five could recall the same items after coming off the hypnotized method. So then you had 11 students who could not remember items while being hypnotized and 9 who could not remember after coming off of it either. So as a result there were more fails than accomplishments for this test because there were 15 students test and only 14 did hypnotizing actually work on and your percentage of fails on the ones it did work on was higher than the ones that could remember. So I believe that hypnotizing does not help college students recover childhood memories or items (Nash, at el.,1988). Out of all the information given and recorded then was not major difference in memory through hypnosis. They students did not recall or have memories any better than the peers that were not hypnotized (Yuille, at el,
In determining if hypnosis can retrieve lost memories or recall childhood objects, …show more content…
In the case of these experiments it was the answers to seeing the objects and video. The subjects had the chance to see many different object and remember little details and things from all of them could have been triggering a memory. Following that after exiting the hypnotic state they were put in they would then do the same experiment over and see if the results were different than before.
For them to get an accurate result they would ask the mothers of the subjects to describe childhood objects that had meaning to them. When they were done they would leave and a posthypnotic analytic would take place. Once the students were no longer under hypnosis they would see the same items again and see if they could remember more of the items than before the hypnosis (Nash, at …show more content…
Then on top of that only five could recall the same items after coming off the hypnotized method. So then you had 11 students who could not remember items while being hypnotized and 9 who could not remember after coming off of it either. So as a result there were more fails than accomplishments for this test because there were 15 students test and only 14 did hypnotizing actually work on and your percentage of fails on the ones it did work on was higher than the ones that could remember. So I believe that hypnotizing does not help college students recover childhood memories or items (Nash, at el.,1988). Out of all the information given and recorded then was not major difference in memory through hypnosis. They students did not recall or have memories any better than the peers that were not hypnotized (Yuille, at el,