THE ACCURACY OF ESTIMATING THE RELATIVE DIFFICULTY OF TYPICAL HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA.

Abstract

Abstract College student Ss with little or no reported prior knowledge about hypnosis were able to estimate with reasonably high objective accuracy the relative difficulty levels (pass per cents) of a standardized set of carefully described typical hypnotic items. The correlation between the estimated percentages and the actual test responses as derived from four college student reference samples was .73. Subsidiary normative data are presented.