Harvey is diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. His mother severely abused him from the ...

Harvey is diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. His mother severely abused him from the time he was six years old. The first of his personalities developed around seven. According to his psychoanalyst, the development of separate personalities served the purpose of ____.
 
  a. providing substitute significant others to replace an unacceptable parent
  b. taking the pain of the abuse so that his core personality would survive
  c. helping Harvey to remember his mother's viciousness when he grew older
  d. getting Harvey additional attention from family members

Question 2

The ____ perspective explains the cause of dissociative disorders this way: Extraordinary stress threatens the very existence of the ego and produces extraordinary repression.
 
  a. behavioral
 b. biological
 c. sociocultural
 d. psychodynamic

Question 3

How is the development of the different personalities explained with dissociative disorders?
 
  a. The personalities are developed by the patient consciously with the intent to deceive others.
 b. The personalities emerge through the efforts of a therapist who is either incompetent or unethical.
  c. The personalities emerge as a way of protecting the patient from anxiety.
 d. The personalities develop spontaneously, without conscious deception.

Question 4

According to the sociocognitive model (SCM) of dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder develops ____.
 
  a. as the result of extreme abuse in early childhood
  b. as the result of unethical therapeutic practices
  c. through a biological predisposition
 d. by learning about from the mass media

Question 5

A friend of yours asks, Isn't it easy to tell when a person is faking the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder? What would be an accurate answer?
 
  a. No, because there is no way to accurately determine the existence of multiple personalities.
  b. Yes, you can give them personality tests, those can't be faked.
 c. Yes, diagnosis is usually done after hypnosis, when people are most truthful.
 d. Yes, differences in EEG tracing prove who is showing a different personality and who is not.