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Suggested that the human body was filled with and surrounded by a magnetic force field that could become misaligned and weakened, creating the symptoms of illness.

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Animal Magnetism

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The increased likelihood of people responding in a particular way when they are part of a group and see others as doing so.

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Social Contagion

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a peaceful state that could be induced in magnetic therapy, similar to sleepwalking and unlike Mesmer’s “crisis” states.

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Perfect Crisis/Artificial somnambulism

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The forgetting of events from a hypnotic state after awakening from it.

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Post-hypnotic amnesia

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Completion of a suggested hypnotic effect after the subject has “awakened” from the hypnosis.

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Post-hypnotic suggestion

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Greek word for sleep:

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Hypnos

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Braid’s terms for hypnotism:

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Hymnology and neurypnology

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A psychogenic disorder in which patients experience physiological symptoms, such as fits of violent emotion, paralysis, anesthesia, amnesias, and other neurological like symptoms, without obvious organic causes.

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Hysteria

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The enhancement in the performance of a task as a result of being in a social or group setting.

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Social facilitation

10
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First American journal devoted to abnormal psychology:

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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What the first american journal was later named:

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The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or “group minds” going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members.

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Group Fallacy

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An American social psychologist who became famous for his experimental studies of social conformity and suggestibility in groups.

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Solomon Asch

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A concept study by Asch, Milgram, and other social psychologists to explain how individuals feel pressured to conform to the ideas and opinions of other group members.

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Social Conformity

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An American social psychologist who studied with Kurt Lewin and later developed the theory of cognitive dissonance.

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Leon Festinger

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The experience of holding two or more incompatible or contradictory beliefs, which produces such an uncomfortable state of dissonance that one becomes motivated to reduce it.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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An experimental social psychologist best known for his studies on conformity and obedience in the 1960s in which subjects were told to deliver shocks to a confederate to test their willingness to obey the orders of an authority.

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Stanley Milgram

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A social phenomenon researched by Lilgram, indicating that most people can be interconnected through a small chain of mutual acquaintances–the “six degrees of separation” effect

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Small world phenomenon

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The process of explaining a research study to participants before they agree to join, thus informing them of the effects the study may have on them.

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Informed Consent

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An American social psychologist whose “Lost in the Mall” research focused on false memories and the fallibility of eyewitness accounts.

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Fictitious recollections of events that can be created in suggestible subjects

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False Memories