Regarding the History of Hypnosis,which of the Following Statements Is

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Multiple Choice

Regarding the history of hypnosis,which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Interest in hypnosis began in the 1700s with Franz Mesmer, whose name gave us the term mesmerize, which later came to mean "to hypnotize."
• B) Mesmer believed that he could cure disease with magnets and called his theory "animal magnetism."
• C) The term hypnosis was later coined by the English surgeon James Braid and is the Greek word for sleep.
• D) Current research shows that the EEG patterns recorded during hypnosis are deep sleep patterns consisting of delta waves.

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