PSYC 241 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Etiology, Nonconformist, Behavior Management

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Shannon Zaitsoff

Document Summary

Severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced beyond one"s control. Dissociation: the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings and experiences in consciousness and memory. Individual is affected by persistent or reoccurring feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization. Depersonalization: an experience in which individuals feel a sense of unreality and detachment from themselves. Derealization: an experience of detachment and altered relationship to the surrounding world, the individual perceives other people and objects in the environment as unreal, distorted and dream-like. The inability to recall significant personal information in the absence of organic impairment following a traumatic event. Localized: (most common type) failure to recall information from a very specific time period. Selective: loss of memory for only some parts of the trauma and other parts are remembered. Generalized: loss of all personal information from individual"s past. Continuous: (rare) forgetting information from a specific date until the present.