Which statement about dissociative amnesia is accurate?
a. It is the partial or total loss of important personal information that is not ordinary forgetting.
b. Its onset is always slow and progressive.
c. It begins to develop in early childhood.
d. It only remits with psychodynamic therapy.
Question 2Dissociative fugue is best described as ____.
a. a generalized amnesia for one's identity and life history that may be accompanied by bewildered wandering or purposeless travel
b. lack of memory for a specific event or events
c. a condition in which two or more independent personality states appear to exist in one person
d. feelings of unreality concerning the self and the environment
Question 3Suppose we interviewed fifty people with illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis). Which quote do you expect we would hear most often?
a. My doctor is very accurate with her diagnoses.
b. I can notice even the slightest changes in my body.
c. I know that even when I am sick, nothing terrible is going to happen.
d. I know I have some kind of illness, but I haven't been to see a doctor in years.
Question 4Mr. Able is diagnosed with illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis), while Mr. Baker is diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder (somatization disorder). How will their symptoms be different?
a. Mr. Able will fear he has an undetected fatal illness; Mr. Baker will have many vague physical complaints.
b. Mr. Able will have complaints about his body; Mr. Baker will not.
c. Mr. Able will not have any physical complaints; Mr. Baker will fear that he has cancer or a form of heart disease.
d. Mr. Able will claim that he cannot see or walk; Mr. Baker will fear that he has an undetected fatal illness.
Question 5Mrs. Klinger has a ten-year history of fearing a heart attack, although no doctor has found anything wrong with her heart. She frequently calls emergency services and lies in bed most days worrying that she will have a coronary. Mrs. Klinger suffers from ____.
a. complex somatic symptom disorder with pain features (pain disorder)
b. functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)
c. malingering
d. illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)