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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 5 Problem 16TY

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Solution 1

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the name indicates it the disorder that is developed after a serious traumatic stress or experiencing an event that involves threatened death, murder or witnessing a violent situations like military combat.

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Hence the option d is not correct.

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Dissociative disorder it is a disorder of multiple areas of the mental functioning. It disturbs the normal functioning of memory, identity, perception and consciousness. it can be happen in mild state in our daily life when we engage in reading a book or daydream and lose track of surroundings.

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Dissociative disorder is of three types

• Dissociative identity disorder

• Dissociative amnesia

• Depersonalization/ derealization disorder

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is also called multiple personality disorder. This means that the individual behaves in two or more distinct personality states. This is also characterized by inability to recall personal information. The alternative identities are very different from the original character.

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Hence the option c is not correct.

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Depersonalization disorder is characterized by sudden change in the behavior and in a strange way like feeling detachment from the body and watching herself etc.

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Hence the option b is not correct.

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Dissociative amnesia is one of the types of dissociative disorder that is characterized by the failure of memory functioning and unable to bring to mind the previously stored information. This is mainly associated with failure in recalling the autobiographical information.

This disorder is sometimes accompanied by the dissociative fugue that is defined as apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with identity amnesia.

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Hence the correct option is .