AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In order to help patients control their undesired symptoms or unhealthy behaviors, clinicians would be most likely to make use of: posthypnotic suggestion.

Detailed explanation-2: -posthypnotic suggestion a suggestion made to a person during hypnosis that he or she acts out after the hypnotic trance. The suggested act may be carried out in response to a prearranged cue, and the person may not know why he or she is performing the action.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hypnosis: A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another person (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hypnosis. Hypnosis involves the induction of an altered state of consciousness, including focused attention and high suggestibility.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hypnosis can be defined as “a state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterized by an enhanced capacity for response to suggestions” (Elkins et al., 2015).