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1.
  Hypnotica    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz about hypnosis. You are getting sleepy. Your eyelids are heavy. You will enjoy this quiz!
Tough, 10 Qns, macluv, Oct 06 17
Tough
macluv
Oct 06 17
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  Hypnosis    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some basics on an intriguing phenomenon.
Tough, 10 Qns, robert362, Mar 02 04
Tough
robert362
2316 plays

Hypnosis Trivia Questions
1. Who invented the phrase, "Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: Emil Coue

Emil Coue was a French pharmacist who studied autosuggestion circa 1920. You may have seen this idea expressed differently, but the words above are the original English words that Emil Coue used.

2. Which physician coined the phrase "animal magnetism"?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: Franz Anton Mesmer

Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer was an Austrian physician in the late 1700s whose theory of healing included manipulating the universal "magnetic" fluid he believed to be present in everything. The term "mesmerize" comes from the hypnotic state he induced during his very theatrical treatments to balance the magnetic fluid in his patients.

3. The explanation for hypnosis that was offered by the pioneer who gave his name to a term for hypnotism was based on ...?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: Animal Magnetism

Magnetic forces played an important part in Mesmer's theory. He was wrong.

4. During which decade was hypnosis recognized by the American Medical Association as a valid therapeutic technique?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: 1950s

In 1958, the American Medical Association approved a report on the medical uses of hypnosis.

5. Which individual coined the term 'hypnosis'?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: James Braid

The others were prominent men of their time who were interested in - and familiar with - hypnosis.

6. Who is most likely to follow a suggestion given while in the hypnotic state to rob a bank at noontime tomorrow?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: a thief

A hypnotized subject will reject any suggestion that is against their moral character. For example, a suggestion to rob a bank would be rejected by someone for whom robbing banks is against their moral character. However, if the person is already a thief, the suggestion might be followed. As another example, if the hypnotist suggests that the hypnotized subject do a strip tease act and take off all their clothes, the suggestion would only be followed by those subjects who consider that to be acceptable behavior.

7. The term 'hypnosis' derives from the Greek word for ....?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: Sleep

People under hypnosis appeared to be in a sleeplike state.

8. What is the first part of a clinical hypnosis session called when the client is first put into the hypnotic state?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: induction

An investigative interview is an important step a clinical hypnotist should take to learn the particulars of a client's issue. Induction is the generally accepted term for the process of putting the client into, inducing, the hypnotic state.

9. What do you call a suggestion given while in the hypnotic state that is carried out sometime later after emerging from the hypnotic state?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: post hypnotic

Post hypnotic suggestions are essential in clinical hypnosis. They are used to effect the desired behavior in a client such as not smoking or sticking to a healthy diet, behaviors which are to continue long after the hypnotic session has ended.

10. One of the remarkable traits of certain hypnotic subjects is their ability to speak in unknown or foreign languages. This is known as ...?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: Xenoglossy

Hard to explain.

11. A prominent case involving age regression and 'awareness of a past life involved what person?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: Bridey Murphy

A fellow named Morey Bernstien wrote a book, 'The Search for Bridey Murphy', in which he claimed to have hypnotically regressed a housewife back a few centuries.

12. Which doctor opened an office in Calcutta in 1845 and began performing operations using hypnosis to dull the patient's sensitivity to pain?

From Quiz Hypnotica

Answer: James Esdale

Dr. James Esdale performed his surgeries before the discovery of anesthesia. At that time, surgeries were very painful and often fatal. Dr. Esdale's surgeries were painless, and he achieved a survival rate that was very much greater than the average at the time. Later, the ease and certainty of anesthetics supplanted hypnosis for surgical use.

13. Some theorists argue that a 'direct suggestion' given to a hypnotic subject may cause problems due to ...?

From Quiz Hypnosis

Answer: Symptom Substitution

The theory says that if the symptom being treated is only a manifestation of the problem (rather than the problem itself). Thus, eliminating the symptom only will cause a new symptom to arise, since the underlying problem is still intact.

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