Activity for the book My Psychology

Show Me More: 14.2 Hannah Upp’s Dissociative Fugue

Instructions

Read the Show Me More article and then answer the questions.

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Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times/Redux

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Question 1

In the case of Hannah Upp, security cameras indicated that she went to several businesses in New York during her unusual journey, but she had no memory of any of those stops. Which of the following was not one of those visits?

Question 2

LeTrice has just been located in Nashville, Tennessee. She is dirty, has nothing with her but a credit card, and has no idea how she got there. When police ask her for her name she doesn’t know it, and they are only able to locate her family because of the credit card she possesses. She doesn’t remember her trip to Nashville from her home in Dayton, Ohio. Medically she is healthy. Which condition describes LeTrice’s situation?

Question 3

Although the exact cause of dissociative disorders is not known for all circumstances, experts suspect that a majority of them are the result of:

Question 4

Where was Hannah Upp finally located at the end of her unusual experience?