According to the Critical Thinking Box on Explanations of Hypnosis

question 665

Multiple Choice

According to the Critical Thinking box on explanations of hypnosis, 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 non-hypnotized state.
• B) Highly motivated people often perform just as well as hypnotized subjects in demonstrating pain reduction, amnesia, and age regressions.
• 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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