Chapter 6: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders

Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes for Abnormal Psychology, A.Y. 2024-2025.

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Thoughts or urge of having physical symptoms/sick.

Predominant Pain

Individuals whose somatic complaints predominantly involve pain.

Illness Anxiety Disorder

Experience physical symptoms that are either not experienced at the present time or are very mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease.

Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition

Presence of a diagnosed medical condition that is adversely affected by one or more psychological or behavioral factors.

Conversion Disorder

Physical malfunctioning without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.

Factitious Disorder

Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms.

Malingering

Producing false medical symptoms or exaggerating existing symptoms in hopes of being rewarded.

Factitious Disorder by Proxy

When faking is imposed by a parent or other person.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

Alters

Different identities or personalities in DID.

Host Identity

Owner of the body.

Switch

Transition from one personality to another.

Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

Feelings of depersonalization are so severe and they dominate the client’s life and prevent normal functioning.

Depersonalization

Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality, as you are in a dream watching yourself.

Derealization

Your sense of the external world is lost.

Dissociative Amnesia

An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

Generalized Amnesia

Unable to remember anything lifelong.

Localized or Selective Amnesia

Failure to recall specific events.

Psychogenic Amnesia

Memory loss due to psychological cause.

Biogenic Amnesia

Due to biological factors (tumors, accidents, etc.).

Dissociative Fugue

Memory loss revolves around a specific incident; an unexpected trip; individuals just take off and later find themselves in a new place, unable to remember how they got there.

Dissociative Trance

Sudden changes in personality accompany a trance or possession.