Shelley experiences persistent feelings of detachment from herself, as if she were observing herself from outside her body. The experience is so intense that she often has trouble remembering who she is and functioning in a coherent manner. Shelley most likely suffers from: d. Illness anxiety disorder. |
b |
With regard to the treatment of hypochondriasis, some research supports the use of b. psychoanalysis. c. cognitive-behavioral treatment and stress management. |
c |
Loss of physical functioning without any physical cause is most likely a case of b. Illness anxiety disorder. c. Somatic symptom disorder |
a |
George has completely lost his sight during the past year, but medical experts can find no physical reason for his blindness. This could be an example of c. conversion disorder. d. dissociative disorder. |
c |
Min has been experiencing repeated seizures, but none of the neurologists he has visited could find any abnormal EEG activity. He is likely exhibiting a case of c. Aphonia d. All of the above |
a |
Conversion disorder patients were conceptualized by Freud as |
a |
Conversion disorder symptoms generally appear b. following a physical injury to the affected area. d. in women with repressed sexuality. |
c |
Which of the following would be typical for a patient suffering from a conversion disorder? b. Ability to see some bright objects when calm but suffering complete loss of sight during a stressful period or emergency |
a |
An example of factitious disorder imposed on another is b. a parent lying to a doctor, e.g., saying that the child has had symptoms that never really existed. d. convincing a child to lie to a doctor about factitious symptoms. |
a |
Parents suspected of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy show all of the following typical behaviors EXCEPT c. appearing extremely concerned and caring toward the child. d. purposefully making the child sick. |
a |
The modern view of the causes of conversion disorder is |
b |
In treating conversion disorder, which of the following statements is true? b. Clients respond well to hypnosis. c. Clients respond well when hypnosis and CBT are combined. |
a |
According to your textbook, the following statement is true about the treatment of conversion disorder: c. social support and attention are the most effective method of treatment for conversion disorder. d. in treating conversion disorder, Freudian methods to access the unconscious are the most effective. |
a |
Your textbook authors describe a treatment plan for conversion disorder involving b. regression to the early psychosexual stages of development. c. application of a strict behavioral program that includes reinforcement for each display of progress and punishment when necessary. |
d |
Dissociation is most likely to happen c. When there is primary gain d. when a patient is malingering |
a |
The experience of dissociation occurs in b. individuals with dissociative disorders only. c. only in those individuals who have experienced great personal trauma. |
d |
Depersonalization is defined as b. altered perception involving loss of the sense of reality of the external world. d. the feeling that one is no longer a person. |
a |
Derealization is defined as b. altered perception involving loss of the sense of one's own reality. c. altered perception involving loss of the sense of reality of the external world. |
c |
Brain imaging studies have found that depersonalization is associated with all of the following EXCEPT b. Deficits in emotion regulation c. Dysregulation in the HPA axis d. Dysregulation of the visual cortices |
d |
Jason suddenly notices that the world looks weird to him. Some objects look bigger than normal and others look smaller. Cars passing by seem oddly shaped, and people appear dead or mechanical. Joe is experiencing b. depersonalization. c. classic early psychosis symptoms. |
a |
The diagnosis of derealization-depersonalization disorder is b. quite rare and only applicable to those diagnosed with psychosis c. fairly common, since many people experience derealization and depersonalization. d. fairly common and applied to anyone who is frightened by an experience of derealization or depersonalization. |
a |
During a fugue state, patients with what has been called dissociative fugue b. travel involuntarily but do not experience memory loss. c. temporarily lose memory of who they are but are able to recover their sense of identity after the fugue state. |
a |
During a dissociative fugue state, it is not uncommon for individuals to b. see the world as a strange and foreign place. d. Involuntarily contact friends and family. |
c |
. Individuals with dissociative identity disorder generally b. suffer a loss of their own identity that lasts several years. |
d |
The defining feature of dissociative identity disorder is that aspects of the individual's personality are b. completely suppressed. d. Dissociative Disorders |
c |
With regard to dissociative identity disorder, the term alter refers to ________ within the individual. b. a dangerous personality c. the most recent personality to emerge |
d |
In dissociative identity disorder, the "host" personality is usually the one that d. is sexually provocative. |
b |
The existence of a cross-gendered alter in dissociative identity disorder is b. rare. c. present in every patient. d. almost never seen in this disorder. |
a |
Vanessa, who is 40, apparently believes that she is a 20-year-old woman. Suddenly, however, she starts to speak and behave very differently, and says she no longer thinks of herself as "Vanessa." Instead, she claims to be Elise, a 10-year-old child. It is likely that Vanessa has just experienced a b. dissociative fugue. c. conversion reaction. |
a |
The causes of dissociative identity disorder appear to be b. sexual abuse. c. witness to a traumatic event. |
d |
Some theorists suggest that dissociative identity disorder is an extreme subtype of b. obsessive-compulsive disorder. d. antisocial personality disorder. |
c |
The process of changing from one personality to another generally occurs ________ in most patients with dissociative identity disorder. b. quickly c. rarely d. only after many warning signs that a change is about to occur |
b |
Comparisons of optical functioning in the various personalities of dissociative identity disorder patients show changes that would be b. absolutely impossible to fake. c. consistent with an individual who was trying to fake. |
d |
Which of the following statements is the most accurate? |
a |
Which of the following statements is the most accurate? |
c |
Dissociative identity disorder is most commonly found in c. children. |
a |
Without treatment, it is expected that dissociative identity disorder will last b. a lifetime. c. several months. |
b |
Sue has dissociative identity disorder. It is extremely likely that she also has c. a history of problems with the law. d. no desire to get better. |
a |
The main reason why dissociative identity disorder patients tend to have many additional psychological disorders is that b. the severe trauma of childhood leads to many problems in later life. d. they are substance abusers. |
b |
The common feature in almost every case of dissociative identity disorder is b. unrelenting substance abuse. c. a history of body dysmorphic disorder. |
d |
The experience of dissociation (feelings of unreality; blunting of emotional experience and physical pain) during or immediately following a life-threatening situation is b. extremely rare in non-disordered individuals. d. a normal reaction. |
d |
In studies conducted by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues, individuals were told about false events that had supposedly occurred when they were children. The results of these studies indicate that b. people can become quite convinced of events that never happened. c. only individuals with diagnosable disorders can be convinced of events that never happened. d. people can become convinced of events that did not happen only during hypnosis or other dissociative states. |
b |
Putnam et al. (1986) examined 100 cases of dissociative identity disorder, and found that ________ percent of the subjects had experienced significant trauma. b. 53 d. 100 |
c |
The victims most likely to have amnesia as a result of trauma are those who d. were victims of natural disasters. |
c |
The general treatment plan for dissociative identity disorder patients usually centers on b. hypnotic regression of the host and each alter. d. the typical substance abuse treatment model. |
a |
The part of the treatment plan for dissociative identity disorder that is similar to the treatment plan for posttraumatic stress disorder is b. use of antipsychotic medications. c. reliving and reprocessing the trauma, similar to treatments for PTSD. |
c |