Exam 6: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders

When clinical findings provide evidence of incompatibility between the symptom and recognized neurological or medical condition, we say that this is:

According to psychological theory, neuroses stem from

Panic disorder shares several common characteristics with both somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Which of the following is not one of those shared features?

One method that is used to reduce the financial burden associated with somatic symptom disorder is ____________.

Illness anxiety disorder was formerly known as:

In dissociative identity disorder, the transition from one personality to another is called a .

In dissociative fugue, the term fugue relates to .

The hypothesized connections between somatic symptom disorder and antisocial personality disorder are

The average length of time between an individual's first symptoms of DID and the identification and diagnosis of the disorder by a professional is .

Without treatment, it is expected that DID will last .

A man who finds himself living in a small town in Alaska with no recall of how he got there may have ___________.

Studies suggest that false memories are .

The process of changing from one personality to another generally occurs dissociative identity disorder.

In studies conducted by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues (Loftus, 2003; Loftus, Coan, and Pickrell, 1996), individuals were told about false events that had supposedly occurred when they were children. The results of this study indicated that

With regard to evidence for the scientific validity of dissociative identity disorder (DID), the most accurate statement is

Compare and contrast depersonalization-derealization disorder and dissociative amnesia.

Discuss the controversy surrounding false memories.

Describe a common treatment for dissociative disorders which are linked to a traumatic event.

The disorder that involves physical malfunctioning without any physical cause is called .

Although it's name has changed from DSM-IV to DSM-5, hypochondriasis is essentially an emotional disturbance triggered by