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When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a three-hour shoulder surgery in 1972, he didn’t use any pain medication to recover. Instead, he hypnotized himself. It worked—to the surprise of everyone but Spiegel himself, who has studied hypnosis for 45 years. Hypnosis is often misunderstood as a sleep-like state in which a person is put to sleep and does whatever he is asked to do. But according to Dr. Spiegel, it is a state of highly focused attention and intense concentration. Being hypnotized, you tune out most of the stimuli around you. You focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought. This trance-like state can be an effective tool to control pain, ease anxiety, and deal with stress. Not all people, however, are equally hypnotizable. In a recent study, Dr. Spiegel and his colleagues found that people who are easily hypnotized tend to be more trusting of others, more intuitive, and more likely to get caught up in a good movie. The research team compared people who were highly hypnotizable with those low in hypnotizability. Both groups were given fMRI scans during several different conditions: at rest, while recalling a memory, and during two sessions of hypnotism. The researchers saw some interesting changes in the brain during hypnosis—but only in the highly hypnotizable group. Specifically, there was a drop in activity in the part of the brain which usually fires up when there is something to worry about. This helps explain how hypnosis can have powerful effects, including reducing stress, anxiety, pain, and self-consciousness. Spiegel hopes that the practice can be used to replace painkillers. His own previous research has shown that when people in pain were taught self-hypnosis, they needed half the pain medication and suffered half the pain of those who were only given access to painkillers. However, more needs to be learned about hypnosis in order to harness its potential effects.
When Dr. David Spiegel emerged from a three-hour shoulder surgery in 1972, he didn’t use any pain medication to recover. Instead, he hypnotized himself. It worked—to the surprise of everyone but Spiegel himself, who has studied hypnosis for 45 years. Hypnosis is often misunderstood as a sleep-like state in which a person is put to sleep and does whatever he is asked to do. But according to Dr. Spiegel, it is a state of highly focused attention and intense concentration. Being hypnotized, you tune out most of the stimuli around you. You focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought. This trance-like state can be an effective tool to control pain, ease anxiety, and deal with stress. Not all people, however, are equally hypnotizable. In a recent study, Dr. Spiegel and his colleagues found that people who are easily hypnotized tend to be more trusting of others, more intuitive, and more likely to get caught up in a good movie. The research team compared people who were highly hypnotizable with those low in hypnotizability. Both groups were given fMRI scans during several different conditions: at rest, while recalling a memory, and during two sessions of hypnotism. The researchers saw some interesting changes in the brain during hypnosis—but only in the highly hypnotizable group. Specifically, there was a drop in activity in the part of the brain which usually fires up when there is something to worry about. This helps explain how hypnosis can have powerful effects, including reducing stress, anxiety, pain, and self-consciousness. Spiegel hopes that the practice can be used to replace painkillers. His own previous research has shown that when people in pain were taught self-hypnosis, they needed half the pain medication and suffered half the pain of those who were only given access to painkillers. However, more needs to be learned about hypnosis in order to harness its potential effects.
According to Dr. Spiegel, which of the following is true when people are hypnotized?
- A They recall only happy memories.
- B Their mind is fixed only on what they are doing.
- C They do whatever they are told to do.
- D They have greater awareness of things around them.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文中第二段 Dr. Spiegel 對於催眠狀態的核心界定，特別是關於 $highly focused attention$ 與 $exclusion of any other thought$ 的描述。從「選擇性注意力」（selective attention）的學術觀點出發，當個體對 $subject at hand$ 達到極致專注時，其意識焦點與周遭環境刺激（stimuli）的關係呈現出何種特定趨勢？
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AI 專屬家教
喲，竟然選對了？看來你這顆被短影音荼毒的大腦，今天終於願意跳過雜訊，抓到重點了。別太得意，這種送分題你如果還錯，我真的會建議你直接去應徵文中那種被催眠的受試者，反正你平常在學校聽課的狀態也跟「喪失自主意識」沒兩樣。 觀念驗證： 這題考的是「細節歸納」與「同義替換（Paraphrasing）」。文章第二段明確定義：催眠是「a state of highly focused attention」（高度專注的狀態）且會「tune out most of the stimuli」（排除多數干擾）。選項 (B) 的「mind is fixed only on what they are doing」完美對應了文中的「focus intently on the subject at hand」，這就是標準的閱讀理解邏輯。
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