CUET Preparation Today
| Read the passage given below and answer the question given below: Well-being is not simply maintenance and survival but also includes growth and fulfilment. According to this criterion, conforming behaviour can be seen as abnormal if it is maladaptive, i.e. if it interferes with optimal functioning and growth. Following this, some people suffers from memory loss which can be characterised by extensive but selective memory loss that has no known organic cause (e.g., head injury). Some people cannot remember anything about their past. Others can no longer recall specific events, people, places, or objects, while their memory for other events remains intact. Some other people could experience an unexpected travel away from home and workplace, the assumption of a new identity, and the inability to recall the previous identity. It usually ends when the person suddenly ‘wakes up’ with no memory of the events that occurred during that time. This disorder is often associated with an overwhelming stress. Another one is often referred to as multiple personality, is the most dramatic. It is often associated with traumatic experiences in childhood. In this disorder, the person assumes alternate personalities that may or may not be aware of each other. Further other disorder involves a dreamlike state in which the person has a sense of being separated both from self and from reality. In this, there is a change of self-perception, and the person’s sense of reality is temporarily lost or changed. |
| This disorder is often referred to as multiple personality. Which following it is? |
Conversion disorders Dissociative identity disorder Somatic symptom disorder Illness anxiety disorder |
| Dissociative identity disorder |
| Dissociative identity disorder, often referred to as multiple personality, is the most dramatic of the dissociative disorders. It is often associated with traumatic experiences in childhood. In this disorder, the person assumes alternate personalities that may or may not be aware of each other. |
