Abnormal Psychology Test 2- Chapter 8

unwarranted fears about a serious illness despite absence of any significant somatic symptoms

illness anxiety disorder

underlies behaviors based on experiences that cannot be consciously recalled

implicit memory

treatment of DID involves (2)

improvement of coping skills and integration of alters into one fully functioning individual

prevalence of conversion disorder

1%

who coined the term "conversion"?

Freud

whispered speech

aphonia

loss of smell

anosmia

not consciously aware of visual input, failure to be explicitly aware of sensory information

blindsight

"soma"

body

treatment for somatic symptoms disorders

cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants

neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by medical disease or culturally sanction behavior

conversion disorder

sensory or motor function impaired but no known neurological cause

conversion disorder

memory fails slowly over time, not linked to stress, and accompanied by other cognitive deficits

dementia

lose sense of self, unusual sensory experiences, feelings of detachment or disconnection

depersonalization

in ___ ____ disorder, the perception of self is altered

depersonalization/ derealization

alteration in the experience of the self and reality

depersonalization/ derealization disorder

world has become unreal

derealization

some aspect of cognition or experience becomes inaccessible to consiousness

dissociation

inability to remember important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness

dissociative amnesia

lack of conscious access o memory, typically of a stressful experience. the fugue subtype involves loss of memory for one's entire past or identity

dissociative amnesia

amnesia and flight and new identity

dissociative fugue subtype

at least two distinct personalities that act independently of each other

dissociative identity disorder

involves conscious recall of experiences

explicit memory

falsification of psychological or physical symptoms without evidence of gains from those symptoms

factitious disorder

intentionally faking psychological or somatic symptoms to gain from those symptoms

malingering

the ___ model suggests that DID results from severe psychological and or sexual abuse in childhood

posttraumatic

the ___ model suggests that DID is a form of role-play in suggestible individuals

sociocognitive

excessive concerns about physical symptoms or health

somatic symptom disorder

excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to somatic symptoms

somatic symptom disorder

3 major somatic symptom disorders

somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder

dissociative amnesia usually remits

spontaneously

hippocrates believed that conversion disorder was attributed to a

wandering uterus