One Important Reason That Some Psychologists Are Skeptical of Dissociative

question 135

Multiple Choice

One important reason that some psychologists are skeptical of dissociative identity disorder is that:

• A)the number of reported cases increased dramatically since the early 1970s.
• B)several famous dissociative identity disorder patients have publicly admitted that they were faking their symptoms in order to gain fame and make money.
• C)dissociative identity disorder is easy to produce through hypnotic suggestion and can also be easily cured by hypnosis.
• D)the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder are also present in schizophrenia, a much more likely diagnosis.

Understand the role of discriminative stimuli in operant conditioning.

Relate the principles of conditioning to real-life examples of learning and behavior change.

Familiarize with the contributions of key researchers (e.g., Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike) to the field of behavioral psychology.

Understand the stages of change in therapy and their implications for the therapy process.

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