Chapter 6 Vocab

Question 1

What is a somatic symptom disorder?

Answer 1

An excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns

Question 2

What is dissociation/ dissociative experiences?

Answer 2

Slight alterations or detachments in consciousness or identity

Question 3

What is conversion hysteria?

Answer 3

Unexplained physical symptoms indicates the conversion of unconscious emotional conflicts into more acceptable forms

Question 4

What is neurosis?

Answer 4

Suggested a specific cause for a certain disorder

Question 5

What is briquets syndrome?

Answer 5

Somatic symptom disorder (hysteria)

Question 6

What is an illness anxiety disorder?

Answer 6

Physical symptoms are not experienced at the time or are mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease (hypochondria)

Question 7

What is disease conviction?

Answer 7

Individuals mistaking my have a difficult-to-shake belief that they have a disease

Question 8

What is koro?

Answer 8

Belief accompanied by severe anxiety and sometimes panic that the genitals are retracting into the abdomen

Question 9

What is dhat?

Answer 9

Vague mix of physical symptoms, including dizziness, fatigue, and weakness —semen loss—

Question 10

what is antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 10

Characterized by vandalism, persistent lying, theft, irresponsibility with finances, and at work and outright physical aggression

Question 11

What is psychological factors affecting medical conditions?

Answer 11

Asthma or diabetes are brought on by anxiety towards cancer

Question 12

What is conversion disorder?

Answer 12

Physical functioning such as paralysis, blindness, or difficulty speaking without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction

Question 13

What is aphonia?

Answer 13

Difficulty speaking

Question 14

What is astasia-abasia?

Answer 14

Feeling of paralysis in legs

Question 15

What is globus hystericus?

Answer 15

The sensation of a lump in your throat that makes it difficult to swallow and eat

Question 16

What is malingering?

Answer 16

Faking

Question 17

What is a factitious disorder?

Answer 17

Falls between faking a disorder and a conversion disorder

Question 18

What is cartharsis?

Answer 18

Therapeutic re-experiencing of emotionally traumatic events

Question 19

What is la belle indifferencé?

Answer 19

The pretty indifference

Question 20

What is depersonalization?

Answer 20

Your perception alters so that you temporary lose the sense of your own reality

Watching yourself in a dream

Question 21

What is derealization?

Answer 21

Your sense of the reality of the external world is lost

Things change size and shape and people become mechanical or dead

Question 22

What is depersonalization - derealization disorder?

Answer 22

Feelings of unreality that are so severe and frightening that they dominate an individual and prevent normal functioning

Question 23

What is acute stress disorder?

Answer 23

People undergoing intense stress or experiencing a traumatic even which caused depersonalization-derealization disorder

Question 24

What is generalized amnesia?

Answer 24

People who are unable to remember anything including who they are

Question 25

What is localized or selective amnesia?

Answer 25

A failure to recall specific events that are usually traumatic that occur during a specific period

Question 26

What is dissociative fugue?

Answer 26

Memory loss revolves around a certain incident

Wandering into the cornfield after the accident

Question 27

What is amok?

Answer 27

Individuals in a trance-like state often brutally assault and sometimes kill people or animals

Question 28

What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?

Answer 28

Multiple personalities coexisting

Question 29

What is a autohypnosis model?

Answer 29

People who are suggestible may be able to use dissociation as a defense against extreme trauma