ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 8E COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE WITH SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ According to the case study on somatization, the main problem
you want to focus on in treatment is:
Answer: self-sabotaging
◉ According to the case presentation on depression the main factor
involved in situational depression for women is
Answer: relationship problems
◉ Just before debuting at Carnegie Hall, the pianist suffered
paralysis of her left hand. Which of the following BEST describes her
disorder?
Answer: conversion disorder
◉ Abnormalities that are thought to have both biological and
psychological causes are:
Answer: somatoform disorders
◉ Which of the following is TRUE about factitious disorders?
,Answer: Those with factitious disorder are not trying to achieve
some external gain by faking illness
◉ Having a background in medicine, but also a grudge against the
profession, puts a person at risk for:
Answer: a factitious disorder
◉ A woman complains of an assortment of physiological ailments.
You think that she is intentionally producing the physical symptoms
in order to appear sick, which fills some psychological need. You
would diagnose:
Answer: factitious disorder
◉ If a chronically ill child was removed from home and placed in
foster care, and then became quite healthy, one might suspect that
the parent (usually the mother) was experiencing:
Answer: a factitious disorder
◉ Munchausen syndrome by proxy is MOST likely to adversely affect
the physical well-being of:
Answer: the child of the person experiencing it
◉ Conversion disorders are more common in:
Answer: women than men
, ◉ If a person complains of a wide variety of physical symptoms over
a period of time in the absence of a physical basis for the symptoms,
the diagnosis would likely be:
Answer: somatization disorder
◉ A person experiencing blindness, paralysis, or loss of feeling, may
also be said to be displaying:
Answer: conversion disorder
◉ Which of the following would lead you to suspect someone has a
conversion disorder rather than is exhibiting medical symptoms?
Answer: uniform and even numbness in the "damaged" hand
◉ Somatic symptom disorders differ from conversion disorders in
that:
Answer: conversion disorders usually last less time
◉ A woman has experienced a wide range of vague but disturbing
physical symptoms over a period of several years. Doctors cannot
find a cause for the problems; medically, the woman appears normal.
Based on this information, the BEST diagnosis would be:
Answer: somatic symptom disorder (somatization pattern)
STUDY GUIDE WITH SOLVED QUESTIONS
◉ According to the case study on somatization, the main problem
you want to focus on in treatment is:
Answer: self-sabotaging
◉ According to the case presentation on depression the main factor
involved in situational depression for women is
Answer: relationship problems
◉ Just before debuting at Carnegie Hall, the pianist suffered
paralysis of her left hand. Which of the following BEST describes her
disorder?
Answer: conversion disorder
◉ Abnormalities that are thought to have both biological and
psychological causes are:
Answer: somatoform disorders
◉ Which of the following is TRUE about factitious disorders?
,Answer: Those with factitious disorder are not trying to achieve
some external gain by faking illness
◉ Having a background in medicine, but also a grudge against the
profession, puts a person at risk for:
Answer: a factitious disorder
◉ A woman complains of an assortment of physiological ailments.
You think that she is intentionally producing the physical symptoms
in order to appear sick, which fills some psychological need. You
would diagnose:
Answer: factitious disorder
◉ If a chronically ill child was removed from home and placed in
foster care, and then became quite healthy, one might suspect that
the parent (usually the mother) was experiencing:
Answer: a factitious disorder
◉ Munchausen syndrome by proxy is MOST likely to adversely affect
the physical well-being of:
Answer: the child of the person experiencing it
◉ Conversion disorders are more common in:
Answer: women than men
, ◉ If a person complains of a wide variety of physical symptoms over
a period of time in the absence of a physical basis for the symptoms,
the diagnosis would likely be:
Answer: somatization disorder
◉ A person experiencing blindness, paralysis, or loss of feeling, may
also be said to be displaying:
Answer: conversion disorder
◉ Which of the following would lead you to suspect someone has a
conversion disorder rather than is exhibiting medical symptoms?
Answer: uniform and even numbness in the "damaged" hand
◉ Somatic symptom disorders differ from conversion disorders in
that:
Answer: conversion disorders usually last less time
◉ A woman has experienced a wide range of vague but disturbing
physical symptoms over a period of several years. Doctors cannot
find a cause for the problems; medically, the woman appears normal.
Based on this information, the BEST diagnosis would be:
Answer: somatic symptom disorder (somatization pattern)
