Exam 10: Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms

Which statement BEST describes someone with illness anxiety disorder?

Dalia often sleepwalks and has frequent night terrors. She would most likely be diagnosed with:

With _____, a person pays attention to the feelings, thoughts, and sensations that are flowing through his or her mind but does so with detachment and objectivity and, most important, without judgment.

_____ is the study of the connections between stress, the immune system, and illness.

Which statement BEST reflects our understanding of hysterical disorders?

Elle gets extremely bad headaches just on one side of her head. When she gets them, she is dizzy and is nauseous and has even vomited. Which type of headaches is Elle MOST likely experiencing?

Rowena had been terrified about testifying in court. One morning shortly before she was scheduled to appear, she awoke blind. In this example, Rowena is achieving:

When a person is under stress, the adrenal glands release:

People with _____ are said to be consistently angry, cynical, driven, impatient, competitive, and ambitious.

Compared with a migraine headache, the pain associated with a muscle contraction headache is typically:

A risk factor for development of a psychophysiological disorder is:

Hypertension that results from a combination of psychological and physiological factors is called _____ hypertension.

Which system is the body's network of activities and cells that identify and destroy antigens and cancer cells?

Disorders that represent the conversion of conflicts and anxiety into physical symptoms would include:

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is MOST likely to adversely affect the physical well-being of:

Difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep is called:

Which finding would lead you to suspect someone has a conversion disorder rather than another medical cause?

Freud's view was that hysteria stemmed from an unresolved _____.

A person with hypertension would MOST likely:

In the conversion symptom of _____, numbness begins at the wrist and extends evenly to the fingertips.