Exam 6: Dissociative Disorder and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Heather is deliberately faking symptoms of illness in order to gain the attention of doctors.This behaviour is best described as:

The separate personalities in a person suffering from dissociative identity disorder are often referred to as "alters."

Sandra is experiencing a loss of vision for which her doctor can find no physical cause.The term best suited to describing her condition is

Current thought about dissociative disorders and somatic symptom and related disorders suggests that both are characterized by physical symptoms or behaviours that are caused or exacerbated by elevated serotonin levels.

Feelings of depersonalization/derealization are quite common in young adults,and they are only considered pathological when

"Glove anesthesia" refers to

There is no evidence that people with dissociative disorders score higher on measures of hypnotizability.

What is false memory syndrome and how is this distinguished from the trauma-repression hypothesis?

Which of the following medications is sometimes used in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder and associated comorbid disorders?

There is some similarity between illness anxiety disorder and ___________.

Which of the following is true of the treatment and prognosis of DID?

Somatic symptom and related disorders were at one time viewed as masked

Medication is generally not useful in the direct treatment of DID.

Dissociation was emphasized in early Christianity as a function of God's will.

List and BRIEFLY discuss the defining features of 3 somatic symptom and related disorders from the DSM-5.

Current treatments for somatic symptom and related disorders focus on

In malingering,individuals deliberately fake or generate the symptoms of illness in order to gain their doctor's attention.

The transition from one alter to another is called a "jump."

Which of the following matches is incorrect?

The average number of personalities in dissociative identity disorder is five.