Your boss knows that you are enrolled in a psychology class. He tells you that his mother-in-law has suddenly left home and traveled to another state. When the police found her, she had been living in the new town for six months. She had invented a totally false past and had no memory of her real past life. He wants to know what psychological disorder you think she is likely to be diagnosed with?
a. dissociative amnesia c. depersonalization disorder
b. dissociative identity disorder d. dissociative fugue
D
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Studies have found that life stress __________ is associated with higher degrees of methylation in genes involved in brain development.
A. after age 5 B. at any point in the life span C. never D. in the first four years of life
Postconventional moral reasoning is based on abstract reasoning. It therefore depends on attaining Piaget's __________ stage of cognitive development.
A. sensorimotor B. preoperational C. concrete operational D. formal operational
Allport believed that present and future behavior can best be explained in terms of the disconnect between past experiences and present motives through the concept of:
a. functional autonomy. c. the epigenetic principle of maturation. b. psychosexual conflicts. d. instinctual drives.
_____ refer to the discrete, observable, objective, and behavioral aspects of human activities in which people engage related to culture
a) Self-enhancement behaviors b) Cultural worldviews c) Self-concepts d) Cultural practices