Ned seeks therapy after having recurrent episodes of feeling "detached from himself" for several months, but he has not lost his self-awareness or memory. He notes that he feels like a robot, disconnected from his movements and actions
He is most likely suffering from ______.
a) dissociative fugue
b) conversion disorder
c) dissociative identity disorder
d) depersonalization disorder
ANS: D, Depersonalization disorder involves feeling detached from oneself and one's own experiences.
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A. emotional-conditioned response B. the contiguity theory C. the cognitive perspective D. stimulus generalization
Which statements about the National Health and Social Life Survey conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago is false??
a. ?The researchers attempted to obtain a representative sample of the U.S. population. b. ?The results indicate that people in committed, one-partner relationships tend to have the most sex. c. ?The survey contained controversial questions regarding pornography, pedophilia, and sexual fetishes. d. ?About a third of the participants reported having sex only a few times, or not at all, in the preceding year.
Order effects result from
a. which condition follows which b. the ordinal position of the condition c. between subjects designs d. control group designs
All of the following are true of implicit memory except that
a. age differences in implicit memory are relatively small. b. it is associated with the temporal lobe of the brain. c. its memories are not in conscious awareness. d. its associated part of the brain develops later that the part(s) associated with explicit memory.