BCH Hypnotic Phenomena & Classical Phenomena

Question 1

In hypnosis, catalepsy most accurately refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Muscular rigidity or waxy flexibility where a body part maintains a suggested position

Answer

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.

Question 2

Hypnotic amnesia is BEST described as:

Accepted Answer

The forgetting of events or content from the trance experience, spontaneously or by suggestion

Answer

Hypnotic amnesia involves forgetting events that occurred during hypnosis, which can arise spontaneously in deep trance or be deliberately induced through direct suggestion.

Question 3

An ideomotor response in hypnosis is best described as:

Accepted Answer

An unconscious, automatic physical movement triggered by an idea or mental image

Answer

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.

Question 4

During hypnotic age regression, a client is MOST likely to experience:

Accepted Answer

Reliving past events with the subjective sense of being at that younger age

Answer

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.

Question 5

Hypermnesia in hypnosis refers to:

Accepted Answer

Enhanced or heightened memory recall facilitated by hypnosis

Answer

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.

(BCH) Board Certified Hypnotist Practice Test

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BCH Hypnotic Phenomena & Classical Phenomena