According to the Critical Thinking box, psychologists Irving Kirsch and Wayne Braffman propose that many highly suggestible participants are just as responsive to suggestions when they have not been hypnotized as when they have been hypnotized. They note that hypnosis does not reflect a distinct brain state but rather individual differences in the degree to which a person is able to experience an imaginary state of affairs as if it were real. Their explanation of hypnosis is called the:
A)neodissociation theory.
B)imaginative suggestibility view.
C)activation-synthesis model.
D)social-cognitive theory.

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This is known as the imaginative suggestibility view of hypnosis proposed by Kirsch and Braffman.

According to the Critical Thinking Box, Psychologists Irving Kirsch and Wayne