AP PSYCHOLOGY

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

UNDERSTANDING CONSCIOUSNESS AND HYPNOSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following states of consciousness occurs when one person suggests to another that certain thoughts or behaviors will spontaneously occur?
A
Dreaming
B
Hypnosis
C
Daydreaming
D
Hallucination
E
Waking Awareness
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What are the possible influences of hypnosis? The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state. A social interaction in which one person responds to another persons suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypnosis:a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hypnagogic hallucinations occur during the hypnagogia stage of sleep, while nightmares generally occur later in the sleep cycle when a person is fully asleep. Generally, vivid dreams, such as nightmares, occur most commonly during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dissociation is a split in the mind in which there can be two independent streams of consciousness occurring at the same time, allowing some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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