According to the sociocognitive explanation of dissociative identity disorder:
a. troubled people begin to have intense attacks of profound fear and impending doom and are unable to interpret these attacks as a normal response to great stress.
b. this diagnosis allows some people to account for past sexual or criminal behavior that they now regret or find intolerably embarrassing.
c. individuals who have had insecure attachments during the first three years of life tend to
experience MPD symptoms when adult relationships end.
d. this disorder is associated with abnormalities in the central nervous system, problems with impulse control, and damage to the prefrontal cortex.
Answer: b. this diagnosis allows some people to account for past sexual or criminal behavior that they now regret or find intolerably embarrassing.
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