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1.
Somatoform disorders are difficult to diagnose because there are no physical symptoms.
A)True
B)False
2.
People who fake a symptom or disorder in order to avoid an unwanted situation are said to be malingering.
A)True
B)False
3.
Munchhausen's syndrome is characterized by an intentional faking of symptoms to gain medical attention.
A)True
B)False
4.
La belle indifference is the refusal to believe that one's conversion disorder symptoms lack a physiological cause.
A)True
B)False
5.
Glove anesthesia is a conversion symptom in which people lose all feeling in one hand.
A)True
B)False
6.
Conversion symptoms result from spontaneous self-hypnosis.
A)True
B)False
7.
The female relatives of people with somatization disorder have higher rates of antisocial personality disorder.
A)True
B)False
8.
On average, individuals with body dysmorphic disorder have four or more separate bodily preoccupations.
A)True
B)False
9.
Hilgard argued that there is an active mode to consciousness in which our minds register information without our awareness.
A)True
B)False
10.
In a dissociative fugue, a person suddenly moves to a new place, assumes a new identity, and has no memory for his or her previous identity.
A)True
B)False
11.
Hypnosis is used in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder to contact alter personalities.
A)True
B)False
12.
Memory loss caused by brain injury is known as organic amnesia.
A)True
B)False
13.
The inability to remember information from the past is known as anterograde amnesia.
A)True
B)False
14.
Psychogenic amnesia rarely involves retrograde amnesia.
A)True
B)False
15.
Frequent episodes in which one feels detached from one's mental processes or body is called depersonalization disorder.
A)True
B)False





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