TRANSFORMATION OF THE INSTRUCTIONS IN SUG GESTIONS USING OPERANT PROCEDURES

The aim of this work was the design of a behavioral program for non-su ggestible people, in order to develop their receptivity to suggestions . A procedure of successive approximations was used; information on th e aim of the suggestions was provided and a series of exercices, with different levels of difficulty, were carried out to form them. The the rapist was reinforcing the success of the exercices at every moment. T he achievements show the efficacy of the procedure of this programme t o develop suggestions. Six of the ten subjects that took part in the e xperiment responded to some of the suggestions. Moreover, it was confi rmed that the change was contingent to the intervention: none of them showed any change until the specific training for each suggestion was introduced, meanwhile the responses were kept at the line-base levels. These results would confirm the importance of the situational variabl es in the suggestibility or hypnotic susceptibility.