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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson's patients often think that they are:
(a) Doomed.
(b) Wasting time and money.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Incapable of change.

2. Paying attention to others is the best way to ______.
(a) Meet and control.
(b) Understand and relate.
(c) Befriend and bond.
(d) Manipulate and use.

3. Erickson's treatments helped the woman to get rid of which problem?
(a) Anxiety attacks.
(b) Muscle spasms.
(c) Hiccups.
(d) Constipation.

4. According to Erickson, patients that have been hypnotized tend to take suggestions in which way?
(a) Grudgingly.
(b) Happily.
(c) Literally.
(d) Suggestively.

5. What is one of the most common ways that a patient can block treatment?
(a) Refusing to talk.
(b) Resistance.
(c) Being overwhelmed.
(d) Falling asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that the beliefs about trances are:

2. The student was able to convince the other men of his innocence by supplying what item?

3. People are often willing to do things under hypnosis that they might otherwise consider to be:

4. People in a trance state may be willing to do something silly such as:

5. The student and the professor had a confrontation about which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the crux and purpose of MY VOICE WILL GO WITH YOU by Sidney Rosen?

2. Erickson chose to forge his own way in the practice of hypnotherapy by developing what? What were the developments designed to do?

3. What was Arthur's offer to the professor and the dean? What was the result?

4. What happened between Arthur and the professor? What was the conflict?

5. What is automatic behavior? How can it be used to help patients?

6. Erickson believes that it may not be necessary to solve an entire problem for the problem to be effectively relived. Explain this theory and to what cases it might best relate.

7. Briefly describe Erickson's approach to dealing with patients on a one-to-one basis.

8. What is Erickson's primary method of treatment? What tool is used to treat the patient? What is the purpose?

9. The author talks about rapport and relating to another person. Why should one strive to build rapport?

10. Erickson talks about forgotten skills. What does the doctor mean about forgotten skills? What was the example used?

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