Research Development Paper
Tanya Mitchell
November 23rd 2015
PSY/335
Nancy Lee

Research Development Paper
Introduction
In this paper, it will discuss research development through a video in this week electronic reserve. The video is around the Purpose of Attention and Conscious-Unlearning through Hypnosis and how it apply to the real world. Hypnosis was developed by an Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer. During the 18th century, Amir Raz used hypnoses in his research that was presented in the “Attention and Consciousness-Unlearning through Hypnosis”. Also, we will look at the how Raz us his research to by using the scientific methods in smoking. These result will show that hypnosis can be use in the real world.
The purpose of unlearning through hypnosis is to make people undo automatic behavior like smoking, cursing, etc. This is to automatic decrease the likelihood of wanting to do any unhealthy habits. Reading is used as an example, which helps in understanding the method of experimenting. Once you have learned to read then, it is easy just to read something automatically. Raz suggestion is that through hypnosis skill that have been learned can be unlearned. The experiment that was done was the Stroop Color-Word Test, this video showed different colors for the words such as red was yellow, black was orange, and blue was green, etc. The patient was to say the color of the text but not to read the word. In the video, it stated that “In the research he found that the brain of highly suggestible people under hypnosis process the word as foreign, and screened only the color and, therefore, did much better on the task since the words did not interact with the color.”
The research applied to the real world through the experiment that was done that would help someone who is struggling to stop smoking or overeating. This research is very