Exam 6: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders

_____ treatments for conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) focus on relieving the person's anxiety around the initial trauma that caused the conversion symptoms and on reducing any benefits the person is receiving from the conversion symptoms.

When people with dissociative identity disorder report hearing voices talking inside their heads, they may be misdiagnosed as having _____.

Which of the following statements is true of the somatic symptom disorder?

Organic amnesia often involves the inability to remember new information, known as _____ amnesia.

Elizabeth Loftus's "lost at the mall" studies showed how easy it is to _____.

Which treatment focuses on helping clients recall events and memories that may have triggered their somatization symptoms?

What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)? What are its symptoms?

Which of the following alters found in dissociative identity disorder offers advice to the other personalities or performs behaviors the host is unable to handle?

People with conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder):

Which of the following is considered to be the most dangerous alter found in dissociative identity disorder?

For most people, the active mode and receptive mode:

In Hilgard's study on the "hidden observer" phenomenon, he argued that there are two modes of consciousness: the _____ mode the and _____ mode.

A person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder may have several alters. An alter is a(n):

Which of the following is a reason an individual may develop dissociative identity disorder?

People who develop dissociative identity disorder tend to be:

Dissociative identity disorder was formerly known as _____ disorder.

Unlike a person with dissociative identity disorder, a person in a fugue state:

Mary created an illness in her younger daughter to draw attention to herself. This is known as a _____.

What is factitious disorder imposed on self? What is factitious disorder imposed on another? What are some of the costs to a child whose mother has Munchhausen's or factitious syndrome?

Cognitive therapies for somatic symptom disorder focus on: