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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by hypnosis .you are

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getting very very sleepy. repeat after shmoop. I love shmoop. shmoop for president.

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shmoop for world president. and now we wait. here's our question .hypnosis can [clock sways as black and white circles move]

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lead to a person doing all that which of the following: and here are potential

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answers. after that hypnosis thing. Alright. well

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please note our carefully worded question. can lead to a person doing that

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is to say we're not willing to flat-out stick that hypnotism works and puts the

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hypnotized person to complete control of the hypnotist. we aren't puppets after

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all. the act of putting an individual into hypnosis is said to put them into a

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state of heightened focus, allowing them to concentrate on the task at hand while

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also leaving them far more susceptible to suggestion. so when we worded b for

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instance which by the way isn't the correct answer because it definitely [option B on the blackboard]

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does happen to people being hypnotized. we're leaving it up to you to decide if

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the power of hypnotism is controlling the individual or if they're merely

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feeling a social pressure to conform to the situation and thereby acting in the

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way they think the Hypnotizer wants and to act, which is why the rather similar

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answer see also is not correct. remember we're looking for something that doesn't

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happen to individuals under hypnosis and it's most definitely common for

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individuals to be more open to suggestion during hypnosis whether it's

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to bark like a dog jump on one foot, do a cartwheel or somehow all three at once.

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that being said it's still up to debate as to whether the person was actually

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barking and jumping around because they couldn't control themselves or if they

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were doing it because they were in front of a crowd and it would be pretty

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awkward if they didn't listen to anything the hypnotist said at all. an

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individuals involved in hypnotism do often recall events from the past

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they've had and since forgotten. even if they're not all that Pleasant .heightened

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senses of focus & relaxation are commonly associated with hypnotism .both [man frowns as he lays on a couch]

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of which can aid in recalling old memories.

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and we're looking for something unrelated to hypnotism you have to go as

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well. while much of hypnotism is still up for debate one thing is for certain. it

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definitely hasn't been known to cause night terrors. not yet anyway. now back to

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the whole shmoop for president thing- you're getting sleepy very sleepy. yeah

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how long does this take? [clock swaying]

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