Question 1

____________ disorders are characterized by unusual physical symptoms that occur in the absence of a known physical illness.

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Question 2

Summarized in your textbook,the case study called "Dallae's Journey" involves a dissociative __________ .

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Question 3

Explain the effect of social factors on the role of learning in the etiology of somatic symptom disorders.

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Question 4

Exceeding normal forgetfulness,___________ amnesia involves a sudden inability to recall extensive and important personal information.

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Question 5

Freud recognized that individuals who exhibited various psychological symptoms could gain certain advantages such as sympathy or an excuse to avoid work.He labeled this "secondary gain." Cognitive behavioral psychologists would call this process positive __________ .

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Question 6

Psychologists disagree as to the nature of hypnosis.Some see it as an altered state of consciousness,while others see it as merely an example of a social _________ .

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Question 7

Explain why dissociative identity disorder is such a controversial diagnosis.

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Question 8

___________ disorders involve the creation of a disorder by its treatment.

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Question 9

Discuss a "state dependent learning" model as a possible cause of a dissociative disorder.

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Question 10

Discuss cognitive behavior therapy methods used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Question 11

Today,a somatic symptom disorder that is much more common than the type seen by Freud or Charcot is __________ disorder,characterized by a history of multiple somatic complaints in the absence of organic impairments.

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Question 12

Describe the association between antisocial personality disorder and somatic symptom disorder.

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Question 13

Recovered memories from early childhood have become an important and controversial issue.Discuss the reasons for this controversy and the research evidence that casts doubt on some reports of "recovered memories."

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Question 14

Body __________ disorder is a different type of somatic symptom disorder in which the patient is preoccupied with some imagined defect in appearance.

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Question 15

Identify the major clusters of symptoms used in diagnosing acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.Give an example of each.

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Question 16

How and why has the definition of traumatic events changed from earlier versions of DSM to the current DSM? What have surveys revealed about traumatic events?

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Quiz 7: Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, and Somatic Symptom Disorders