Section 16-3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Conversion disorder

Answer 1

Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function

Question 2

Dissociative disorder

Answer 2

A disorder in which a person experiences alternations in memory, identity, or consciousness

Question 3

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 3

The inability to recall important personal events or information; is usually associated with stressful events

Question 4

Dissociative fugue

Answer 4

A dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past

Question 5

Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 5

A person exhibits two or more personality states, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving

Question 6

Somatoform disorder

Answer 6

Condition in which there is no apparent physical cause