71. Tiffany is about to be hypnotized. She will probably experience all of the following except
A. suggestions that she is feeling relaxed and sleepy.
B. a request that she focus her attention on a monotonous set of stimuli.
C. increased reality-testing and critical-thinking abilities.
D. instructions to imagine certain feelings or events.
72. Who would make the worst hypnotic subject?
A. Jerome, who very much wants to be hypnotized
B. Sally, who is not easily distracted
C. Carmello, who processes information very slowly
D. Nadia, who is very imaginative
73. Of the following individuals, who is likely to be the most hypnotically susceptible?
A. Brandon, a reality-oriented stockbroker
B. Janice, a fantasy-prone actress
C. Megan, a sixth-grader who has trouble focusing her attention on a task
D. Darren, who has never been able to really “get involved” in movies or novels
74. Mikey, a highly disturbed adult, is undergoing hypnosis. During the session, he begins to reenact a horrible event from his childhood in which he was forced to eat stale, awful breakfast foods. In this example, Mikey is apparently displaying
A. posthypnotic suggestion.
B. withdrawal syndrome.
C. age regression.
D. posthypnotic amnesia.
75. Dr. Trance hypnotizes Travaughn and then tells him that from now on, whenever he feels the urge to smoke a cigarette, he will get up and get a glass of water instead. This instruction is an example of
A. hypnotic induction.
B. posthypnotic suggestion.
C. symptom substitution.
D. hypnotic replacement therapy.
76. After being hypnotized in a therapy session, Juan says that he can't remember what went on. This phenomenon is known as
A. retrograde amnesia.
B. advanced hypnotic susceptibility.
C. posthypnotic suggestion.
D. posthypnotic amnesia.
77. Julie is in hypnosis. She is least likely to
A. initiate actions independently of the hypnotist's instructions.
B. fantasize.
C. follow requests made of her by the hypnotist.
D. ignore everything except the hypnotist's voice and the things the hypnotist points out.
78. Nikki is hypnotized. “You are now a chimpanzee,” the hypnotist says. Nikki hops around the stage, swinging from chair to chair and making monkey-like calls. Which change typical of hypnosis is Nikki exhibiting?
A. Age regression
B. Redistributed attention
C. Posthypnotic amnesia
D. Increased role-taking
79. In an experiment, one group of participants was hypnotized, whereas the other group pretended they were hypnotized. Both groups were instructed to cough every time they heard the word hop. All members of both groups coughed when the word hop was used in a sentence, but only the hypnotized group coughed when a research assistant casually mentioned hip-hop music. This is evidence for the _____ theory of hypnosis.
A. role
B. dissociation
C. psychoactive
D. state
80. Torean is a psychologist who uses hypnosis with his patients. He believes that processes normally under our control are temporarily separated in consciousness and can occur on their own but that people ultimately decide how to act while under hypnosis. Torean supports the _____ theory of hypnosis.
A. role
B. state
C. dualist
D. dissociation
