Author Question: According to the posttraumatic model of dissociative identity disorder (DID), an abused child can ... (Read 55 times)

ETearle · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to the posttraumatic model of dissociative identity disorder (DID), an abused child can more easily cope with everyday life by usually forgetting about the abusive incidents and by pretending that the abuse is happening to someone else. In behavioral terms, this self-deception can be conceptualized as a type of covert:

A) avoidance response.
B) form of learned helplessness.
C) attention-seeking device.
D) appetitive response.

Question 2

Behaviorists have traditionally viewed multiple personalities as distinct patterns of behavior that result in response to:

A) prolonged exposure to distinct yet extremely monotonous tasks.
B) distinctly different contingencies of reinforcement.
C) unpredictable contingencies of reinforcement.
D) uncontrollable contingencies of reinforcement.