Asian Journal of Advances in Research

Increasing research has been conducted to examine the nature, diagnostic validity, symptomatology and phenomenology of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in the past three decades, though little research were devoted on the understanding of its cognitive functioning.  This pilot study aims at exploring a range of cognitive abilities in DID by using existing cognitive tests. Several surveys and tests were conducted in this study and it was discovered that many of the respondents could finish the ‘divided attention tasks’ and they were able to distinguish between the given older and newer version of the pictures in the cognitive memory tasks, and many could not. Overall, this study is based on the changed pictures, cognitive memory tasks and other data and information which might help explain lack of memory for the pictures or similar data or related identification tasks. Results of the study show less significant in high and low dissociators’ familiarity with such information in the participants having DID.