The numbers are added and the result is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced * Pressure involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way * Pressure is strongly related to measures of mental health * 3 reactions to stress: 1.Emotional responses- as stress increases, mood becomes more negative * the inverted U hypothesis predicts that task performance should improve with increased emotional arousal * as a task becomes more complex the optimal level of arousal decreases 2.Physiological responses- the fight or flight response i...

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The supporters of repressed memories believe that many victims find their experiences too terrible to remember. ... By this dissociative process, thoughts, feelings, memories, and perceptions of the traumatic experiences can be separated off psychologically, allowing the child to function as if the trauma had not occurred. ... People with DID (MPD) may experience any of the following: depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, comp...

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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they were committed. According to law, this is a sufficient basis for showing he lacked the requisite mental state required as an element of the charged crime. ...

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