According to the Critical Thinking Box "Is Hypnosis a Special

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Multiple Choice

According to the Critical Thinking box "Is Hypnosis a Special State of Consciousness?" some research has shown that certain people are highly responsive to suggestions whether they are formally hypnotized or not. This finding tends to support which view of hypnosis?

• A) the social-cognitive view
• B) the imaginative suggestibility view
• C) the neodissociation, special state view
• D) the role-playing view

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