HYPNOSIS 1

Question 1

Create amnesia for whatever happens during the hypnotic session, at least for a brief time

Answer 1

HYPNOSIS CAN

Question 2

Relieve pain by allowing a person to remove conscious attention from the pain

Answer 2

HYPNOSIS CAN

Question 3

Alter sensory perceptions.

Answer 3

HYPNOSIS CAN

Question 4

Help people relax in situations that normally would cause them stress

Answer 4

HYPNOSIS CAN

Question 5

Give people superhuman strength.

Answer 5

HYPNOSIS CAN’T

Question 6

Reliably enhance memory.

Answer 6

HYPNOSIS CAN’T

Question 7

Regress people back to childhood.

Answer 7

HYPNOSIS CAN’T

Question 8

Regress people to some “past life.”

Answer 8

HYPNOSIS CAN’T

Question 9

Movement of the body back and forth

Answer 9

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 10

Closing eyes and unable to open them

Answer 10

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 11

Fingers locked together

Answer 11

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 12

One arm locked into position

Answer 12

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 13

Responding to posthypnotic suggestion

Answer 13

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 14

Loss of memory for events during the session

Answer 14

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 15

Unable to state one’s own name

Answer 15

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale

Question 16

Seeing or hearing nonexistent stimuli

Answer 16

Items That Would Appear on a Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale