If a Hypnotist Gets Someone to Balance with the Head

question 128

Multiple Choice

If a hypnotist gets someone to balance with the head on one chair and feet on another chair,how does this happen?

• A)A magnetic field holds the person up.
• B)Most people can do this even without hypnosis.
• C)Hypnosis gives people greater strength than they would have otherwise.
• D)A wire that the audience doesn't see is supporting the person's back.

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Definitions:

Psychological Research

The scientific study of the mind and behavior through experiments, observation, and analysis to understand psychological phenomena.

Structuralism

An approach in psychology that analyzes the basic elements of thoughts and sensations to understand the structure of the mind.

E. B. Titchener

A psychologist known for developing structuralism, an early school of psychology that aimed to understand the structure of the mind through introspection.

Wilhelm Wundt

A German physiologist and psychologist who is considered one of the founders of modern psychology; he established the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.