Chapter 6- Anxiety + Somatic Symptoms & Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Malingering

Answer 1

Intentional production of false or exaggerated symptoms motivated by external incentives

Question 2

Somatic symptom disorder

Answer 2

A group of disorders where an individual experiences physical symptoms that have no knwon cause

Question 3

Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondria)

Answer 3

Excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness, despite little or no medical evidence to support such concerns

Question 4

Functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)

Answer 4

Sudden loss of functioning of a part of the body usually following a stressor

Question 5

Factitious disorder

Answer 5

A disorder where an individual intentionally produces or fakes symptoms of illness to receive attention or sympathy, without external incentives in contrast to malingering

Question 6

Reactive attachment

Answer 6

Trauma and stressor-related disorder that results from significant neglect or trauma. Affected individuals have trouble forming emotional attachments to others

Question 7

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Answer 7

Person develops more than one distinct identity or personality

Question 8

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 8

Loss of important facts about a persons own life and identity. Usually awareness of this memory loss

Question 9

Dissociative disorders

Answer 9

Disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception etc.

Question 10

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 10

Deficit in the ability to learn new information

Question 11

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 11

Deficit in the ability to recall previously learned information

Question 12

Dissociative fugue

Answer 12

Disorder in which a person moves away and takes a new identity, completely forgetting the old self

Question 13

Depersonalization/derealization disorder

Answer 13

Episodes of feeling detached from one’s own body as if you’re outside of yourself. Symptoms must cause distress

Question 14

Organic amnesia

Answer 14

Memory loss caused by physical damage to the brain

Question 15

Factitious disorder imposed on another

Answer 15

When someone (usually a caregiver) induces or fabricates symptoms in another person, often a dependent, for attention or sympathy.

Question 16

Psychogenic amnesia

Answer 16

Memory loss caused by psychological factors rather than physical injury, often following a traumatic event.