Aristide believes that people who think they are hypnotized are not actually hypnotized at all. In fact, they are simply acting out everything that they are being told to do by the hypnotist. Aristide's way of thinking is similar to which of the following theories?

• A. Freudian theory of hypnosis
• B. Social-cognitive theory of hypnosis
• C. Dissociative theory of hypnosis
• D. Theory of hypnotic confusion