Abnormal Psychology 3331 Exam 3

Abnormal Psychology 3331: Exam 3

Somatoform disorders & Dissociative disorders -

✅Linked to stress & anxiety



Somatoform Disorders -

✅Problems appears to be medical but are actually caused by psychosocial factors.



Dissociative disorders -

✅Memory loss and identity change that are caused almost entirely by psychosocial factors NOT
physical ones.



3 things that make up Somatoform Disorders -

✅-Pain disorder

-Hypochondriasis

-Conversion disorder



3 things that make up Somatic symptoms -

✅-Illness anxiety disorder

-Conversion disorder

-Factitious disorder



What is in a category of its own -

✅OCD



What is a Somatic symptom associated with -

✅distress and impairment



People with this disorder do not consciously want to produce their symptoms -

✅Somatic symptom disorder



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, People with this disorder believe their problem is genuinely medical -

✅Somatic symptom disorder



Excessive thoughts, feeling, or behaviors related to health concerns -

✅Somatic symptom disorder



Pre-occupation with having a serious illness -

✅Illness anxiety disorder



High level of anxiety about health and easily alarmed about personal health status -

✅Illness anxiety disorder



Unrealistically interpret bodily symptoms as serious illness -

✅illness anxiety disorder



What is Conversion disorder -

✅1+ altered voluntary motor/sensory functions



Weakness or paralysis, abnormal movements, altered or reduced sensation -

✅Conversion disorder



Psychosocial conflict or need that is converted into dramatic physical symptoms -

✅Conversion disorder



Behaviorists think that -

✅anxiety/fears acquired through classical conditioning or modeling



Cognitive theorists -

✅misinterpret/oversensitivity to bodily cues




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