Exam 5: Dissociative and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

A temporary loss or change in the usual sense of one's own reality,in which a person feels detached from mind or body,is called ________.

Dissociative identity disorder is considered rare.

Which of the following is NOT a dissociative disorder?

Most of the time,the bodily symptoms found in conversion disorder match the medical conditions they suggest.

In diagnosing dissociative amnesia,a clinician must rule out __________.

In dissociative identity disorder,the dominant personality is always unaware of the alternate personalities.

Illness Anxiety Disorder is most likely to develop between the ages of ________.

The essential feature of Illness Anxiety Disorder is preoccupation with the pain associated with recurrent physical symptoms.

Millie feels as if she were a robot,watching herself from outside her body as she begins kissing her new boyfriend.This feeling of being in a dream or operating on "automatic pilot" happens to her whenever she begins to get emotionally aroused.She appears to be suffering from ________.

The DSM-5 cautions that dissociative identity disorder has lately become ______ in people who are highly suggestible,leading them to be overly compliant with suggestions that they might have it.

Each of the following statements about multiple personality disorder is true EXCEPT ________.

________ have been developed to help people with multiple personalities integrate their alter personalities.

The learning theory of the "sick role" suggests that people with conversion disorder are feigners.

The term "split personality" actually refers to ________.

Ollie is a mystery.He experienced a sudden loss of memory,left his home in Toronto,and travelled to California,where he established a new identity for himself.He has no memory of his life in Toronto and has filled his mind with bogus memories that he doesn't realize are not genuine.He is suffering from ________.

Koro syndrome tends to be ________.

Jacob has been under a lot of stress at work lately.One morning he awakens to find he is totally blind.At his physician's office,Jacob says he is upset by the loss of his eyesight,but he appears to be totally calm about it.He doesn't seem to be nearly as upset as one would normally expect for someone who has just lost his eyesight.Jacob's lack of emotional reaction probably represents ________.

Fugue states commonly last for months or even years.

The disorder known as zar is found primarily in ________.

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario suggest that some overzealous clinicians might be helping to manufacture that which they are seeking in the case of _________.