Psychology › Section D · States of consciousness › Topic D.6
Hypnosis, meditation, and other states
Consciousness shifts without sleep or drugs: a voice can narrow your attention, a practised breath can steady it, and on a long drive your mind can wander for miles. This topic looks at hypnosis, meditation and everyday altered states, and at which popular claims about them survive careful testing.
In this topic
- Altered states without sleep or drugs
- What hypnosis is
- Inducing hypnosis, and who responds
- Two theories of hypnosis
- Worked example: the hidden observer, read two ways
- What hypnosis can and cannot do
- Worked example: a hypnotised witness
- Meditation
- What the meditation evidence shows
- Everyday altered states
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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