Harvey is diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. His mother severely abused him from the time he was six years old. The first of his personalities developed around seven. According to his psychoanalyst, the development of separate personalities served the purpose of ____
a. providing substitute significant others to replace an unacceptable parent
b. taking the pain of the abuse so that his core personality would survive
c. helping Harvey to remember his mother's viciousness when he grew older
d. getting Harvey additional attention from family members
b
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a. shows that most cognitive processes can be traced to a specific location in the brain. b. often obtains brain images while people are working on a cognitive task. c. is currently most likely to explore cognitive processes by using the brain-lesion method. d. has declined in its popularity during the past 10 to 15 years.
Most of the participants in Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience
a. had no reservations about continuing to give shocks to the learner. b. had concerns about what they were doing and offered to switch places with the learner. c. insisted that they could not continue. d. openly expressed relief that they were not the learner.