According to the Critical Thinking Box: Is Hypnosis a Special

question 133

Multiple Choice

According to the Critical Thinking box: Is Hypnosis a Special State of Consciousness?, what evidence seems to undermine the notion that hypnosis involves dissociation and is a special state of consciousness?

• A)Multiple personalities typically emerge in the hypnotized state but rarely emerge in the nonhypnotized state.
• B)Highly motivated people often perform the same tasks or abilities just as well as hypnotized subjects.
• C)EEG recordings have shown that brain activity is virtually identical during stage 4 NREM sleep and hypnosis.
• D)Hallucinogenic drugs produce many of the same effects as hypnosis.

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