After Participants in One Study Were Informed That a Videotaped

question 46

Multiple Choice

After participants in one study were informed that a videotaped interviewee was a psychiatric patient, they characterized the person with phrases such as "a passive, dependent type" and "frightened of his own aggressive impulses." This study best illustrated the

• A) dangers of dissociative identity disorder.
• B) unreliability of the DSM-5.
• C) biasing power of diagnostic labels.
• D) shortcomings of the social-cognitive perspective.

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Definitions:

Adopted Parents

Individuals who legally assume the role of parent for a child who is not their biological offspring, establishing a permanent parent-child relationship.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Dissociative Disorder

A mental health condition that involves experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions, and identity.

Fugue State

A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality.