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An "alter" is:

A) Any one of the different identities in persons with dissociative identity disorder
B) Triggered by drug use
C) Also called a transmogrify
D) Considered a person's host identity

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Dissociative identity disorder is considered the most serious of all of the dissociative disorders.

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Persons who have dissociative identity disorder are not very suggestible.

In dissociative identity disorder "switching" specifically refers to the changing or movement back and forth between one personality-identity and another.

Duration of the fugue state can last from weeks to months.

A culturally accepted dissociative experience is known as:

Dissociative fugue, seen as apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering associated with amnesia for identity or other important autobiographical information, is a separate diagnosis in the DSM-5.

There are three variables that tend to produce a vulnerability to dissociative disorders. Which of the following is not applicable?

The defining characteristic of dissociative identity disorder is:

Match each term with the appropriate definition: $\begin{array}{|l|l|}\hline \text { Term: } & \text { Definition: } \\\hline \text { a) Dissociation } & \_\_\_\text { Culturally accepted dissociative experience } \\\hline \text { b) Alters } &\_\_\_ \text { Involves sudden travel away from home and } \\&\text { work or to another location }\\\hline \text { c) Ataque de Nervios } &\_\_\_ \text { Feeling detached from, and as if one is an } \\&\text { observer of, one's mental processes or body }\\\hline \text { d) Depersonalization }&\_\_\_ \text { Loss of memory for some but not all events in a }\\&\text { specific period of time }\\\hline \text { e) Continuous amnesia }&\_\_\_ \text { A rev ersible amnesia associated with emotional, } \\&\text { traumatic, or psychological stress }\\\hline \text { f) Derealization } & \_\_\_\text { A mechanism of defense to ward off the } \\&\text { emotional impact of traumatic, abusive ev ents or }\\&\text { memories }\\\hline\text { g) Dissociative } & \_\_\_\text { Persons may experience familiar objects or } \\\text { amnesia } & \text { persons as strange and odd }\\\hline\text { h) Dissociative fugue }&\begin{array}{ll}\_\_\_\text { Distinct personalities who have unique }\\\text { memories, attitudes, habits that are clearly different }\\\text { from the host individual }\end{array}\\\hline \text { i) Selective amnesia }&\_\_\_\text { The person forgets each new event as it occurs }\\\hline\end{array}$

Depersonalization/derealization disorder is different from the other dissociative disorders because in depersonalization/derealization, there is/are no:

The dissociative disorders are characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness. Which of the following is not a functional area affected by the dissociative disorders.

The dissociative disorders are considered controversial.

Each of the following is true of dissociative identity disorder except when:

The essential feature of the dissociative disorders is a disruption of the person's intrapersonal domain, specifically functions of consciousness, identity, perception of the environment and memory.

While dissociative disorders were previously thought to be extremely rare, they are now considered to occur more frequently.

This disorder includes a loss of one's sense of reality in the external world. The affected person may experience familiar objects or persons as strange and odd. It is called:

Which of the following is considered a dissociative disorder?

The two most common dissociative disorders are derealization and dissociative fugue disorder.

In localized amnesia, the affected person has uneven recollections of an event while other portions of time are completely forgotten.