PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Factitious Disorder
12 Dec 2017
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Localized = speci c time period (usually the trauma; i don"t remember anything that happened that day) Selective = forgets bits and pieces of the trauma, don"t remember details. Generalized = all personal info from the past is lost ( hollywood type; remember date & president but nothing personal) Continuous = all personal info from a certain point in the past one year prevalence of around 1-2% but many differential diagnoses (seizures!!! Ptsd, neurocognitive disorders, substance abuse, factitious disorder, malingering, >prevalence of dissociative future is known to increase during times of stress (war & natural disaster); lifetime prevalence of not a diagnosis; ppl can be induced to believe things that didn"t happen. Tbj intention of doing something bc its voluntary > this area differs part of the brain for checking whether or not action feels voluntary differs.
