The Police Find a Man Who Is Disheveled and in a Daze

question 48

Multiple Choice

The police find a man who is disheveled and in a daze wandering through the downtown area. When the police ask him for his name, he seems bewildered. A search of missing persons photographs reveals that this man was reported missing three months ago in a town more than 700 miles away. The man is most likely suffering from

• A) schizophrenia.
• B) dissociative fugue.
• C) dissociative amnesia.
• D) dissociative identity disorder.
• E) depersonalization disorder.

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Definitions:

Acquisition

The process of learning or gaining knowledge, skills, or responses through study, experience, or teaching.

Generalization

A principle in psychology that refers to the tendency to apply learned responses to similar stimuli beyond the original conditions of learning.

Secondary Reinforcement

A process by which a stimulus reinforces a behavior after it becomes associated with a primary reinforcer.

Stimulus Predictability

The extent to which the occurrence and properties of a stimulus can be anticipated based on previous experience.