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crobinson2013 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Teicher and colleagues (2002) studied the chronic activation of stress responses due to childhood trauma. The researchers found ____.

a. no meaningful differences in brain structures between childhood trauma victims and those who suffered no abuse
b. that the hippocampal and amygdalar volumes were very low
c. that the activity in the amygdala increased the ability to remember clearly
d. that the amygdala and hippocampus could hamper the brains ability to encode, store and retrieve memories

Question 2

Goff and Simms (1993) compared case reports of dissociative identity disorder from the years before 1965 and from the 1980s. More recent cases tend to have ____.

a. fewer personalities
b. their onset later in life
c. a greater proportion of males
d. a higher prevalence of reported child abuse