Exam 9: Dissociative Disorders and Somatic Symptom Disorders

______ are the competing identities that sometimes assume control of the personality of an individual with dissociative identity disorder.

"It's like the feeling you get at the end of a page/When you realize you don't know what you've just read" are two lines from an early-'80s song by a band called the Missing Persons. These lines MOST directly reflect the psychological concept of ______.

Dissociative amnesia generally entails the forgetting only of autobiographical memories.

According to the APA (2013), the prevalence of somatic symptom disorder is about ______.

Munchausen syndrome is another name for ______.

Jalen reports that he is concerned that he has the flu because he has sneezed a few times in the past couple of days. The doctor finds no evidence for this diagnosis. Assuming Jalen is not fabricating these symptoms for personal gain and assuming that this is a long-standing pattern of behavior, Jalen might be diagnosed with ______ disorder.

Pam reports that she is very concerned because she feels as if her lymph nodes are inflamed. This is highly distressing for her, and she visits multiple doctors in an attempt to validate her concerns. The doctors find no evidence of an illness. Assuming that she is not fabricating this symptom for personal gain and that this is a long-standing pattern of behavior, Pam might be diagnosed with ______ disorder.

The primary diagnostic element of dissociative amnesia is the

Pathological dissociative symptoms include each of the following EXCEPT this:

Which statement is NOT true concerning dissociation and hypnosis?

Early theorists and researchers did NOT relate ______ to dissociation.

During a therapy session, one of Rhett's "personalities" emerges, that of a rebellious 14-year-old boy named "Skip." Rhett is displaying ______ disorder; Skip is one of Rhett's ______.

With respect to gender, dissociative amnesia is roughly ______ times ______ common in women than in men.

Cojan and colleagues completed a brain study with conversion disorder patients and found that

Individuals who experience a dissociative fugue typically adopt a new personality and lifestyle when they cannot remember their previous life.

Tara is seeking treatment for dissociative identity disorder. Although there are presently no empirically supported therapies for dissociative identity disorders, clinicians use a variety of techniques to counter dissociation. Tara is LEAST likely to be treated using ______.

______ disorder is also called a functional disorder in the medical literature.

In an example of dissociation reported in the textbook, one person reported "seeing everything differently . . . everything starts blending [and] things look more fluid." This experience BEST exemplifies ______.

Write a one- to two-sentence description of a hypothetical patient illustrating each of these three disorders: (1) somatic symptom disorder, (2) illness anxiety disorder, and (3) conversion disorder.

John, a 30-year-old male, acts "like a different person" and often refers to himself by different names when he is intoxicated. His friends worry whether he has a mental health disorder. John sees a psychologist, who informs him that he cannot be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Why not, according to the APA?