PSYC-105 FA4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fugue State, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: American University
• Department: PSYC - PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSYC-105 FA4
• Professor: Laura Duval

Document Summary

*extra credit opportunity: write 3 mc questions from diff sections; should be thoughtful and application oriented. Urges to engage in ritualistic behaviors (compulsion) (the person sees these urges as being foreign to their personality; it is not pleasurable for them; they understand that it doesn"t make sense) Somatoform disorders- physical illnesses that are psychological in origin (predicted by freud) Significant loss of function not explained biologically (i. e. , can"t move your arm but there is no biological reason for it) Dissociative amnesia- single event or extended portion of time. Procedural memory (how to ride a bike) not affected by amnesia. Dissociative fugue- loss of memory for personal history, accompanied by an abrupt departure from home and assumption of a new identity. Dissociative identity disorder (used to be called multiple personality disorder) Two or more personalities coexisting in one person. Many psychologists believe it is over-reported; some think it doesn"t exist.