PSYC 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Fugue State
11 Dec 2018
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Dissociation grows from normal memory process and is a response learned through operant conditioning. Dp: individual feels as though they have become separated from their body and are observing themselves from outside. Dr: the feeling that the external world is unreal and strange. State-dependent learning did people who are prone to develop dissociative disorders may have state-to-memory links that are unusually rigid and narrow, each thought and skill is tied exclusively to a particular state of arousal. They recall a given event only when they experience an arousal state almost identical to the state in which the memory was first acquired. Dissociative amnesia unable to recall important information, usually of an upsetting nature, about their lives: more extensive than normal forgetting, not physical. Develops two or more distinct personalities each with a unique set of memories, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. At any given time, one of the subpersonalities dominates the person"s functioning.
