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Some believe that the effects of hypnosis may not be from hypnosis but from people believing that hypnosis works.

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Everyone can be hypnotized.

Patients generally report conscious awareness of posthypnotic suggestions.

The CIA investigated hypnosis as a possible tool for interrogating prisoners. Why did they decide it was unsuitable for that purpose?

Hypnosis is completely effective, it just takes too long to entrance the subject.

Hypnosis requires a trusting relationship between the hypnotist and subject.

Hypnosis breaks the spirit of the subject, making them unable to answer questions.

Hypnosis can make the subjects talk, but they talk only about their childhoods.

Posthypnotic suggestion can create a trigger in a person that causes them to react violently.

Hypnosis is commonly used by athletes to control their performance anxiety.

The concept of “magnetisme animal” implied which of the following?

Most animals are magnetically conductive.

A person’s health is related to their pets.

Every person has a raw, magnetic energy.

Vegetarians lack essential curative properties.

Which figure was responsible for the initial use of hypnosis as a medical treatment?

Milton Erickson

Franz Mesmer

James Braid

Jean Martin Charcot

According to Ernest Hilgard, hypnosis is the result of __________.

accepted roleplay between hypnotist and subject

suggestions accepted by the conscious mind

entrance into a special state of consciousness

the effects of a “hidden observer” in the unconscious

What disagreement did Sigmund Freud have with both Josef Breuer and Jean Martin Charcot?

whether hypnosis was a neurological or psychological phenomenon

whether hypnosis should be conducted with pregnant women

whether hypnosis had any value as a curative remedy for patients

whether hypnosis was an effect of a “hidden observer” or the id

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