Alexis has dissociative identity disorder. When one personality is asked about another, that personality claims ignorance. This is called a:

Alexis has dissociative identity disorder. When one personality is asked about another, that personality claims ignorance. This is called a:

• A. Mutually amnesic relationship
• B. Mutually cognizant pattern
• C. One-way amnesic relationship
• D. Coconcious relationship

Answer: (A)

Memory access patterns among distinct identities in dissociative identity disorder can be one-way, two-way, or shared. When one identity is asked about another and responds with ignorance, this reflects a one-way amnesic relationship: one identity is aware of and may remember the other, while the other identity has no memory of them and is unaware of their existence. This explains why the asked identity would claim not to know about the others. If both identities lacked knowledge of each other, that would be mutual amnesia, and if both were aware of and could access each other’s memories, the pattern would be coconscious or mutually cognizant. So the one-way amnesic pattern best fits the described scenario.

Memory access patterns among distinct identities in dissociative identity disorder can be one-way, two-way, or shared. When one identity is asked about another and responds with ignorance, this reflects a one-way amnesic relationship: one identity is aware of and may remember the other, while the other identity has no memory of them and is unaware of their existence. This explains why the asked identity would claim not to know about the others. If both identities lacked knowledge of each other, that would be mutual amnesia, and if both were aware of and could access each other’s memories, the pattern would be coconscious or mutually cognizant. So the one-way amnesic pattern best fits the described scenario.