What did Bernheim, the major spokesperson of the Nancy school, argue about suggestibility?

What will be an ideal response?


Berhneim argued that all humans are suggestible, but some are more suggestible than
others, and highly suggestible people are the easiest to hypnotize. Furthermore,
Bernheim found that whatever a highly suggestible patient believed would improve his
or her symptoms usually did so.

Psychology

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A. formal operational B. sensorimotor C. concrete operational D. preoperational

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Yanis, a fourth-grader, does not sleep well and wakes up often during the night. Applying the results of the study by Sadeh and colleagues (2002), we can expect that Yanis will show __________.

A. enhanced performance on measures of visual-motor coordination B. less sustained attention and more behavior problems C. fewer emotional problems D. better academic achievement

Psychology

In connection with women's studies courses, your textbook pointed out that

a. women's studies enrolls more students than any other interdisciplinary field. b. at present, there are hundreds of women's studies courses at the undergraduate level, but no graduate courses. c. students typically comment that they learn about gender in women's studies courses, but they don't learn about other kinds of diversity. d. female students are much more likely than male students to say that they have benefited from taking a women's studies course.

Psychology

____ was an early evolutionary theorist who argued that acquired characteristics could be inherited.?

a. ?Erasmus Darwin b. ?Charles Darwin c. ?Jean-Baptiste Lamarck d. ?Bain e. ?Charles Lyell

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