Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Psychology

Chapter

Therapeutic Approaches

Question:

In Dissociative Amnesia the person experiences -

Options:

A loss of memory of all past and future events

A loss of memory of selective events, people, places or objects

A loss of memory of all past events

Both 2 and 3

Correct Answer:

Both 2 and 3

Explanation:

Dissociative amnesia is 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.