PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stupor, Avolition, Justin Bieber

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Charles Gibney

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Dissociative amnesia: sudden loss of memory of important and or personal events. However dissociative amnesia is caused by stressful/traumatic events. Dissociative fugue: individuals lose memory of their entire life and their sense of personal identity. It is common for the fugue state to end and for the person to re- establish their original identity. Dissociative identity disorder: a distinction is usually made between the. Most studies show that did patients report extremely high rates of childhood sexual or physical abuse. Did is diagnosed 3-9 times more frequently in adult females than in adult males host and the alters. Alternating personalities: two identities take turn controlling their behavior, each having amnesia for the thoughts/actions of the others. Alter is conscious: the host is not aware of the alter, but the alter is aware of the host. Physiological differences between host and alter: diff. handwriting, voice, allergic. Prevalence has increased since the 19th century.