According to the Posttraumatic Model of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Multiple Choice

According to the posttraumatic model of dissociative identity disorder (DID) , an abused child can more easily cope with everyday life by usually forgetting about the abusive incidents and by pretending that the abuse is happening to someone else. In behavioral terms, this self-deception can be conceptualized as a type of covert:

A) avoidance response.
B) form of learned helplessness.
C) attention-seeking device.
D) appetitive response.