PSY 470 Quiz Three (Covering Chapters 7-9)- PSY 470 Quiz 3 Questions and Answers: Grand Canyon University

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Quiz Three (Covering Chapters 7-9)

1. A woman complains of an assortment of physiological ailments. You think that she is
intentionally producing the physical symptoms in order to gain attention. You think that the
ailment fills some psychological need. You would diagnose:

A) Factitious disorder

B) Conversion disorder

C) Generalized anxiety disorder

D) Psychophysical disorder

2) Sarah brings her young daughter into the emergency room with internal bleeding. The
attending physician later concludes that Sarah caused the symptoms in her daughter
intentionally, to bring her to a doctor's attention. If this assessment is true, Sarah would be
diagnosed as having:

A) A fictitious disorder

B) A conversion disorder

C) Munchausen syndrome

D) Munchausen syndrome by proxy

3) People who become preoccupied with some imagined or exaggerated defect in their
appearance suffer from a:

A) Conversion disorder

B) Somatization disorder

C) Hypochondriasis disorder

D) Body dysmorphic disorder

4) A state of breathless euphoria, or frenzied energy, in which people have an exaggerated belief
in their power describes:

A) Mania

B) Dysthymia