Gender role, which refers to the cultural expectations as understood by gender classification, is not the same thing as gender identity, which refers to the internal sense of one's own gender, whether or not it aligns with
Definition of butterfly effect : a property of chaotic systems (such as the atmosphere) by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system
View Full Document. DIAGNOSING THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 2 Diagnosis in The Butterfly Effect : Dissociative Amnesia In the movie The Butterfly Effect , there is evidence that the main character suffers from dissociative amnesia, a protective mechanism of the mind that causes memory loss of specific events or individuals (CardeÃ±a, 2000).