DID Flashcards
In dissociative disorders, the person loses track of all of the following EXCEPT:
What do they lose track of?
sensory abilities
lose
self-awareness, memory and identity
About _____ percent of women and 2.5 percent of men report that they have experienced some form of childhood sexual abuse
13.5%
Both _____ theorists generally consider pathological dissociation to be an avoidance response that protects the person from consciously experiencing stressful events.
psychodynamic and behavioral
The dissociative disorders are all presumed to be caused by a common mechanism, _____, which results in some aspects of cognition or experience being inaccessible consciously.
Dissociation
In this disorder, the person is suddenly unable to recall important personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience and the holes in memory are too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
Dissociative amnesia
Memory for emotionally _____ stimuli is enhanced by stress, while memory for _____ stimuli is impaired.
relevant : enhanced
neutral : impaired
In a more severe subtype of amnesia called _____, the memory loss is more extensive.
fugue
Paul was found standing in front of a shop window. He looked as if he had been in some kind of an accident. He was unable to recall his name, any personal information or what had happened, but was able to talk, read and play the piano. He did not recognize his wife when she came to pick him up. Paul most likely is suffering from
dissociative amnesia
_____ memory involves the conscious recall of experiences, for example, describing a bike you had as a child while _____ memory underlies behaviors based on experiences that are not consciously recalled.
Explicit/ implicit (sub)
_____ memory underlies behaviors based on experiences that are not consciously recalled, for example, memory of how to ride a bike underlies the behavior of actually riding one.
Implicit
ary, living in a small town, was recognized by a visitor as Tom, who used to live in a city about 300 miles away. Gary did not recognize the person nor did he remember anything about life in another city. Gary was told that he disappeared shortly after his wife left him, and he lost his house. He also could not recall how he got to the town he was currently in. Gary is most likely suffering from this DSM-IV-TR disorder _____
dissociative fugue.
In _____ disorder, the person’s perception or experience of the self is disconcertingly and disruptively altered. This disorder is frequently comorbid with personality disorders, anxiety disorders and depression.
depersonalization
Other disorders that commonly involve the symptoms of depersonalization include each of the following EXCEPT:
dependent personality disorder.
With DID, the _____ alter may be totally unaware that the other alters exist.
primary
DID usually begins in _____, but it is rarely diagnosed until _____.
childhood/adulthood