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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the opposite of being in a trance?

2. The author uses another example of a woman who suffers from:

3. The author states that deep trances are:

4. If a person says he cannot be put into a trance, Erickson says that the person is most likely:

5. People often have misconceptions and erroneous preconceived notions about which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean to be in a trance? What kind of person or activity is most likely to experience the state?

2. What was Arthur's explanation for his preparedness when it came to taking the professor's test?

3. How did Arthur and the professor handle the situation?

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

5. What is mentioned as being a way for a patient to block success in treatment? What is one way in which the problem can be solved?

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

7. 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.

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

9. Is it possible to recover from a set of forgotten skills? What example is used?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Automatic writing is one way in which a person can uncover unconscious or subconscious facts, behaviors, thoughts and feelings. What is the difference between unconscious and subconscious realizations? Have you ever experienced either? If so, what? As a class, choose a topic that might be well served by being address by automatic writing. Write at least one page using automatic writing. What was revealed? Would you recommend the technique? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Erickson's views on rapport and the benefits of attentiveness. How are they related? Why are these things important? Are these skills one must learn or are they innate? If they are learned, how does one develop the skill? If innate, what causes one to know when and how to do them? Give an example of when developing rapport or paying attention has benefited you. Give a second example of an incident in which the skills would have been beneficial if you had used one or both of them.

Essay Topic 3

"It's just like riding a bike" is an old adage used by the author to refer to "forgotten" skills. What are forgotten skills? How is it possible to forget a skill? What could cause one to remember it? Would it be a matter of necessity, memory, or physical memory? What is physical or cell memory? How is it triggered? What does it do? How can it be helpful? What forgotten skills do you possess? Could you teach those skills to someone who does not have them? How?

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