Exam 6: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders

Studies of faking, amnesia, and hypnosis, such as the one conducted by Spanos (1996), suggest that symptoms of dissociative identity disorder

Describe how conversion reactions, real physical disorders, and outright malingering can be differentiated.

Losing your own sense of reality is called .

Individuals with depersonalization show

Your friend Jorge is always complaining that he doesn't feel well. He thinks his symptoms are serious, has a high-level of anxiety about his symptoms, and often Googles his symptoms. What must be ruled out before Jorge can be diagnosed for Somatic Symptom Disorder:

Which of the following would be typical for a patient suffering from a conversion disorder?

Conversion disorder patients were conceptualized by Freud as

Although both panic disorder patients and persons with somatic symptom disorder tend to misinterpret bodily sensations, patients with panic disorder

In regard to diagnosing a patient's symptoms as a conversion disorder, it is

A commonly-seen form of factitious disorder imposed on another is a set of conditions that

Which of the following statements is TRUE about factitious disorders?

Describe one normal dissociative experience. How would you differentiate this from a Dissociative Disorder?

Women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with Somatic Symptom Disorder. Why do you think that this is the case?

The experience of dissociation occurs in

Samson knows that he has a cold but goes to the movie theatre anyway. When you confront him about being sick, he replies "misery loves company." Samson is showing evidence of:

Individuals with dissociative identity disorder generally

Hippocrates and the Egyptians before him thought that hysterical disorders were the result of a .

The host identity usually:

There is now incontrovertible evidence that the following statement is TRUE with respect to the accuracy of recovered memories:

With regard to a diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, women are