In soap operas, characters often forget their past experience following some trauma. They don't merely forget the traumatic event, they forget who they are, where they came from - they lose almost all memory of their lives
They then move to a new place and start a new identity. This would best be described as an instance of
a. anterograde amnesia.
b. dissociative fugue.
c. continuous amnesia.
d. generalized amnesia.
b. dissociative fugue.
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A. Nearly six times more women than men suffer from OCD. B. It tends to begin in adolescence or early adulthood but is not uncommon in children. C. Once thought to be a fairly common disorder, with new diagnostic criteria, it is now seen as quite rare. D. Although most people have both obsessive thoughts and compulsive rituals, rarely are the two issues related.
In Pavlov's study of digestion, he noticed that the dogs were salivating at the sight of food. What was Pavlov's initial reaction to this?
A. The salivation was considered to be a bothersome problem. B. He was very excited, since he wanted the dogs to salivate at the sight of food. C. He expected it, so it did not affect his study of digestion. D. He considered it an irrelevant point and initially ignored it.
Which set of stimuli would be the best selection for having people perform a lexical decision task?
A. Common words "cat, boat" and uncommon words "peon, furtive" B. Concrete words "window, monkey" and abstract words "doubt, energy" C. Words "pizza, history" and nonwords "pibble, girk" D. Correctly spelled words "speech, potato" and misspelled words "speach, potatoe"
Roger has recurrent, powerful sexual urges and related fantasies involving being humiliated,
bound, flogged, and made to suffer. He cannot attain sexual gratification unless he is suffering pain or humiliation. He is particularly aroused if his partner wears leather while whipping him. His disorder is ______. a. sexual sadism c. sexual masochism b. frotteurism d. hypoxyphilia