Sudden temporary amnesia or instance of multiple personality are_______disorders.

Related Mcqs:

1. Amnesia, fugue, and multiple personality are all classified as which behavior disorder?

   A. obsessive-compulsive disorder
   B. organic brain syndrome
   C. affective disorder
   D. dissociative disorder

2. Wernicke – korsakoff syndrome is characterised by apathy, amnesia confabulation and ataxia. It is caused by the lack of which vitamin?

   A. Selenium
   B. Manganese
   C. Thiamine
   D. Zinc

3. Multiple personality or dissociative identity disorder often begins:

   A. as a result of combat exhaustion
   B. in adulthood as a response to unremitting phobias
   C. as a consequence of post – traumatic stress disorders
   D. in childhood as a result of unbearable experiences

4. Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:

   A. her id
   B. her alter ego
   C. her ego
   D. reaction formation

5. Personality theorists believe there may be______factors or very board dimensions that make up a person’s personality.

   A. 3
   B. 10
   C. 7
   D. 5

6. The strongest support for the theory that personality is heavily influenced by genetics is provided by strong personality similarity between:

   A. identical twins reared together
   B. identical twins reared apart
   C. fraternal twins reared together
   D. non-twins reared together

7. If you know the personality of an identical twin, you can expect the personality of the other twin to be:

   A. unrelated
   B. similar
   C. identical
   D. conflicting

8. The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______.

   A. Introverts: extroverts
   B. Extroverts; introverts
   C. Similar; unique
   D. Unique; similar

9. According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

   A. Competencies
   B. Goals and values
   C. Affects
   D. Encodings

10. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
    1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
    2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
    3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
    4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 2 & 3
    C. 3 & 4
    D. 1 & 3