Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Trait Theory, False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Electrodermal Activity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Chapter 6 somatic symptom and dissociative disorders (pg. Prince journal of abnormal psychology people experience dissociation occasionally and more likely to happen after extremely stressful events, very tired, mental pressure. During depersonalization your perception alters so you temporarily lose sense of reality. Derealization situation in which the individual loses his/her sense of reality of external world: things seem to change size/shape, people seem dead/mechanical. Symptoms of unreality are characteristic of dissociative disorders. Depersonalization psychological mechanism where one dissociates from reality: reality, experience, identity disintegrate. Depersonaliation-derealziation disorder dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominant the client"s life and prevent normal functioning. Person has repeated experiences of feeling detached from thought/body and feel outside observer of own body/thoughts like as if dreaming. Remain in good contact with reality know they are not actually an outsider. During an intense panic attack many people (50%) experience feelings of unreality. Feelings of depersonalization-derealization are part of several disorders.