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Abnormal Chapter 6
Abnormal psychology chapter 6 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world | Derealization |
| Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the client's life and prevent normal functioning | Depersonalization disorder |
| Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature | Dissociative amnesia |
| Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity | Generalized amnesia |
| Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events | Localized or selective amnesia |
| Dissociative disorder featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity | Dissociative fugue |
| Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction | Dissociative trance disorder |
| Formerly known as multiple personality disorder; a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within 1 body and mind | Dissociative identity disorder |
| Shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder | Alters |
| Altering of perception that causes people to temporarily lose a sense of their own reality, most prevalent in people with dissociative disorders. Often a feeling of being outside observers of their own behavior | Depersonalization |
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