Hypnotic Phenomena & Classical Phenomena Flashcards
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In hypnosis, catalepsy most accurately refers to which of the following?
Answer: Muscular rigidity or waxy flexibility where a body part maintains a suggested position
Catalepsy in hypnosis refers to muscular rigidity or waxy flexibility in which a body part remains in whatever position it is placed, demonstrating a key classical hypnotic phenomenon.
Hypnotic amnesia is BEST described as:
Answer: The forgetting of events or content from the trance experience, spontaneously or by suggestion
Hypnotic amnesia involves forgetting events that occurred during hypnosis, which can arise spontaneously in deep trance or be deliberately induced through direct suggestion.
An ideomotor response in hypnosis is best described as:
Answer: An unconscious, automatic physical movement triggered by an idea or mental image
An ideomotor response is an unconscious, automatic physical movement — such as finger signaling — that occurs in response to an idea without deliberate conscious motor effort.
During hypnotic age regression, a client is MOST likely to experience:
Answer: Reliving past events with the subjective sense of being at that younger age
In age regression, the client subjectively relives past experiences as though occurring in the present, feeling emotionally and perceptually as if they are at that younger age — it is experiential, not physiological.
Hypermnesia in hypnosis refers to:
Answer: Enhanced or heightened memory recall facilitated by hypnosis
Hypermnesia is the phenomenon of enhanced memory recall that can occur under hypnosis, potentially allowing access to memories not readily available in the normal waking state.
A positive hallucination in hypnosis occurs when a subject:
Answer: Perceives something that is not actually present in the environment
A positive hallucination involves perceiving something that is not actually there — such as seeing a suggested person or object — adding a perception that has no external basis.
Time distortion as a hypnotic phenomenon means that the subject:
Answer: Experiences time as passing either faster or slower than actual clock time
Time distortion is the alteration of subjective time experience under hypnosis, in which time may seem to pass more quickly or more slowly than actual elapsed clock time.