Any reseach on hypnosis and improving iq?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin on January 4, 2010 at 3:28pm

That is a very interesting question you have.....

The sad part is that Psychologist and other officials inside psychology do not believe IQ is even real...matter of fact your IQ score means nothing...(for the most part)

There are many people out there are currently battling what is IQ...some people believe it has 3 facets, others believe it has 7 facets and some do not believe Emotion is a facet of intelligence....

Ever heard the story in which IQ test was first develop and where they started to call it IQ? Its a funny dinner story ;)

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 5, 2010 at 1:50am

Kevin, what's sad about Psychologists and other 'other officials inside psychology' not believing IQ is not real?

More to the point, why do you believe it is?

Donald, I'm not sure what you mean by hypnosis increasing IQ. If someone wants to increase their IQ, all they need to do is get one of the many books out of the library with titles like, "How to increase your IQ". All IQ tests do is measure your ability to do IQ tests.

However, if you want to increase things like memory and creativity, then hypnosis can definitely help. Erickson had a number of famous experiments involving this.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Taylor on January 10, 2010 at 1:47pm

Interesting question. I would have to say that you cannot make someone know what they don't know. In my opinion you can only help them to recall what they already know therefore helping answer questions maybe on a test and they may know the answer but had trouble recalling so with hypnosis helping with that recall.

Bruce Taylor

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Permalink Reply by Greg M on January 10, 2010 at 3:58pm

I just noticed this thread, and have a couple of pennies to toss. I wrote this earlier today in another thread in which I described a time earlier in my life when I applied self-hypnosis to improve my study skills and test-taking abilities for college. From the timne I was tested in childhood to the time I was tested again about age 40, my IQ had gone up 30 points. I believe that part of that gain was due to my self-improvement autosuggestion.

Anyway, here's the clip from the other thread, FWIW:

The self-hypnosis I did from 1980 to 1985 was to improve memory and retention for materials & vocabulary I had seen or heard in class, or read in textbooks after class. It was to make connections between new and existing knowledge and to see new possibilities between recently learned material and older materials. It was to revisit and re-evaluate old knowledge/beliefs whenever new information challenged it. It was to try and preserve both old and new knowledge on their merits and not replace one with the other. It was to try to see within others' perspectives while developing my own way of thinking about things. I became a better student, a better test-taker, and I'm not nearly as arrogant about knowledge as I used to be. I no longer make proclamations from on high (ok, so I try hard not to) when dealing with people who see things differently than I do, whether "I know I'm right" or not.

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