1. All studies raise some ethical dilemmas.

 

Outline two ethical issues raised by the study of split personality by Thigpen and Cleckley.

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2. Using information from the study by Thigpen and Cleckley, explain the difference between having a “multiple personality disorder” and “having “different sides to your personality”.

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3. In the study by Thigpen and Cleckley on multiple personality, the therapist described the first time he encountered Eve Black. He described how she crossed her legs and the “therapist noted from the corner of his awareness something distinctly attractive about them, and also that this was the first time he had received such an impression.”

 

(a) How does the therapist interpret this observation?

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(b) Give one other interpretation for this observation.

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4. The Thigpen and Cleckley study looks at the controversial diagnosis of “multiple personality”. It is controversial because some people do not believe that there is such a condition as “multiple personality”.

 

Suggest two pieces of evidence from the case study that suggests that the patient really did have a multiple personality

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5. Thigpen and Cleckley used a case study to investigate multiple personality disorder.

 

Give one advantage and one disadvantage of the case study method used in this study

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6. Psychometric measurement attempts to give insight into human behaviour and experience through the use of reliable and standardised tests.

 

The study by Thigpen and Cleckley (multiple personality disorder) used a number of methods to gather data.

 

(a) Identify one psychometric measure that was used in this study and say what was found.

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(b) Describe one weakness of the psychometric measures used in this study

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(a) From the study on multiple personality disorder by Thigpen and Cleckley, describe one of the projective tests that were administered to Eve White and Eve Black.

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(b) Outline one problem with the use of such tests.

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(a) Identify two psychological tests that were carried out on Eve White and Eve Black in the case study of multiple personality disorder by Thigpen and Cleckley

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(b) Outline the findings of one of these tests.

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9. Outline one piece of evidence that led Thigpen and Cleckley to believe that Eve was suffering from multiple personality disorder.

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10. In their case study on multiple personality disorder, Thigpen and Cleckley used a number of ways of gathering data;

 

(a) identify two of these ways;

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(b) outline one disadvantage of gathering data in one of these ways.

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11. From the study by Thigpen and Cleckley on multiple personality disorder:

 

(a) Identify two tests completed by Eve.

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(b) Explain why an independent tester analysed the results of the tests carried out on Eve.

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12. Suggest one strength and one weakness of evidence gathered by Thigpen and Cleckley in their study of multiple personality.

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13. Suggest one problem with the case study method as used in the study by Thigpen and Cleckley on multiple personality.

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14. In the study by Thigpen and Cleckley on multiple personality disorder, a variety of methods were used including a projective test.

 

(a) Describe what a 'projective' test measures.

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(b) Explain why a variety of methods were used to collect data in this study.

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15. Thigpen and Cleckley investigated multiple personality disorder in one patient.

 

Outline two limitations of the findings of this study.

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