Improving cognitive search skills in resistant hypnotic subjects.
Subjects who were resistant (n = 20) and susceptible (n = 20) to hypnotic suggestion were asked to find the letter Z in an array of other straight-form letters. Susceptibles found the letter more quickly than resistants, and this superiority appeared to be related to their use of a more efficient search strategy. When resistants were taught this strategy, their performance was not significantly different from that of susceptibles. Implications of these results for teaching search strategies are discussed.
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013404:Suggestion