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Finding Implicit Memory in Posthypnotic Amnesia
Finding Implicit Memory in Posthypnotic Amnesia
Following appropriate suggestions and the termination of hypnosis, some subjects are unable to remember the things they did or experienced while they were hypnotized—a phenomenon called posthypnotic amnesia (PHA). After the administration of a prearranged reversibility cue, the memories come back into awareness, marking this amnesia as a disruption of memory retrieval, rather than encoding or storage.
I wanted to see how PHA affected different aspects of memory (Kihlstrom, 1980). Cognitive psychologists distinguish between declarative and procedural memory, and between two forms of declarative memory, episodic and semantic. Because PHA affects memory for experiences, it should impair episodic memory but leave semantic memory intact. An earlier experiment by John Williamsen had ...
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