PSYC 243 Chapter 5 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention.
  2. 4. Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.
  3. 9. Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it.
  4. 10. Shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.
  5. 11. Disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. Previously known as somatization disorder.
  6. 14. A somatic symptom disorder (previously known as somatoform disorder) involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.
  7. 15. Type of dissociative amnesia featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity.
  8. 16. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder; a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind.
Down
  1. 1. Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.
  2. 3. Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.
  3. 5. Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events.
  4. 6. Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.
  5. 7. A dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the client’s life and prevent normal functioning.
  6. 8. A dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.
  7. 12. Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.
  8. 13. measures are taken on two or more behaviors or on a single behavior in two or more situations. A particular intervention is introduced for each at different times. If behavior change is coincident with each introduction, this is strong evidence the intervention caused the change.