Regarding hypnosis and its uses, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Hypnosis has no more effect on physical strength than instructions that encourage a person to make his or her best effort.
b. No state has barred persons from testifying in court if they were hypnotized to improve their memory of the crime they witnessed.
c. When a person is told not to remember something heard during hypnosis, a brief memory loss does actually seem to occur.
d. Most theorists now believe that "age-regressed" subjects are only acting out a suggested role.
B
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a. power b. common interests c. affiliation d. control
Behavioral psychologists try to apply personality research to practical concerns by
A. controlling the way people process information. B. identifying characteristics of individuals in the workplace. C. creating environments to increase the frequency of desired behaviors. D. facilitating people in the development of their self-concept.
Imagine that a picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the right visual field of an individual with a severed corpus callosum. At the same time, a picture of an apple is briefly flashed in the left visual field. Based on work with split brain patients, you could predict that this individual will say:
a. "I saw an apple.". b. "I saw a cat.". c. "I'm not sure what I saw; it looked like an apple with ears.". d. "I didn't see anything.".
Mutism, stupor, and a marked decrease in responsiveness to the environment make patients with which subtype of schizophrenia difficult to "reach"?
a. paranoid b. catatonic c. hebephrenic d. disorganized