Exam 8: Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

After learning of her father's death, Sophia felt dazed and confused but still retained her sense of self. When speaking of her response to the news, she said she felt like she was in a movie watching the events happening to her. Despite this strange feeling, she understood what was happening and did the things that she needed to do. What can be said of Sophia's response to her father's death?

How do people with hypochondriasis typically relate to physicians?

Somatization disorder and hypochondriasis are similar in that

Which of the following is an explanation for the increased prevalence of DID?

_____________ is the disorder in which a person has many different physical symptoms from different areas of the body and the symptoms cannot be explained by medical findings.

Experimental studies of DID find that interpersonality amnesia exists for

The most common kind of speech-related conversion reaction is

What is dissociative fugue? Under what circumstances is this disorder likely to develop?

Studies of the brains of individuals with DID

Explain the difference between somatoform and dissociative disorders. Why are these disorders commonly considered at the same time?

The most effective treatment to date for somatization disorder

Kristie is talking to a career counselor at college. She suddenly announces that it is pointless to discuss jobs, when she knows that her face is incredibly hideous due to her huge number of acne scars. The counselor is surprised, because, while she can barely see a couple of scars at Kristie's hairline, they were not noticeable until Kristie pointed them out. It is probable that Kristie suffers from

____________is the diagnosis given when a person has persistent and severe pain in one or more areas of the body, and it is not feigned or does not have medical causes.

Brigid has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Brigid is the host personality. We can expect that the alter identities

According to sociocognitive theory,

Discuss two of the causal factors of hypochondriasis.

The inability to learn new information is known as

What are some ways to distinguish between conversion disorder and a true physical problem?

In the study mentioned in the text, the German man who had dissociative fugue denied that he could speak German. However, he learned German-English word pairs much faster than control words. This supports that

A person with two or more well-developed identities has the disorder called