PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Cognitive Dissonance
15 Apr 2016
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This symptom would be called: hallucinaions, deterioraion of adapive skills, delusions (thinking, an irraional thought, flatness of afect, angela is a vegetarian who works in a local fast-food restaurant whose main fare is burgers and dogs. Although she feels that working at the restaurant is a bit of a contradicion, she says that vegetarianism is not the central belief system of her life and supporing herself is more important. In this example, angela: reduced dissonance by reducing the importance of one of the dissonant elements, reduced dissonance by changing one of the dissonant elements, probably never experienced any cogniive dissonance, maintained dissonance by jusifying her behaviour. Afecive = emoions, feelings: neil is going to see a therapist for his anxiety atacks. The therapist spends the session discussing with neil his negaive thinking about himself and his abiliies. The therapist atempts to have neil replace his negaive thoughts with raional, posiive one.
