Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When an affected person fakes the medical problems of someone in his or her care in
... [Show More] order to gain attention, that person would be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome. b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. d. a conversion disorder.
2. When people fake their own medical problems in order to gain attention and sympathy from medical professionals, they would be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome. b. Prader-Willi syndrome.
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. d. a conversion disorder.
3. Trenton was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome. This means that he a. tends to fake his own medical problems to gain attention.
b. tends to fake the medical problems of someone in his care in order to gain attention.
c. has severe emotional conflicts that produce symptoms that resemble a physical disability. d. has frequent episodes of depersonalization with accompanying amnesia.
4. Halley enjoys the attention she receives when she goes to the doctor, so she has been making herself appear sick by deliberately causing minor ankle sprains or digestion problems or by complaining of frequent “headaches” and “heart palpitations.” Halley would most likely be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome.
b. a psychosomatic disorder. c. Klinefelter’s syndrome.
d. a conversion disorder.
5. Ben was usually in the hospital at least 15 times a year. He was taking 19 different medications, and his mother said that she desperately wanted him to be healed. The doctors discovered that there was nothing wrong with Ben. It was determined that Ben’s mother had a pathological need to seek attention and sympathy from medical professionals by “keeping her child sick.” Ben’s mother had which of the following disorders?
a. Munchausen syndrome by proxy b. an obsessive-compulsive disorder c. Prader-Willis syndrome
d. a conversion disorder
6. Justine was diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This means that she a. tends to fake her own medical problems to gain attention.
b. tends to fake the medical problems of someone in her care in order to gain attention.
c. has severe emotional conflicts that produce symptoms that resemble a physical disability. d. has frequent episodes of depersonalization with accompanying amnesia.
7. People with which of the following disorders are usually mothers who fabricate their children’s illnesses and sometimes even deliberately harm their children to make them sick?
a. somatization disorder
b. Klinefelter’s syndrome
c. Munchausen syndrome by proxy d. conversion disorder
8. Sam had been sick since he was a young child. He was rushed to the hospital by his desperately concerned mother. Although his mother was praised by the hospital personnel for her attentiveness, the doctors discovered that the mother had been injecting her son with 7-up to make him sick so she could get attention and sympathy from medical personnel and be considered a “concerned, devoted” mother. Sam’s mother would most likely be diagnosed with
a. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. b. an obsessive-compulsive disorder. c. Prader-Willis syndrome.
d. a conversion disorder.
9. What percentage of American adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year?
a. five percent b. 10 percent
c. 25 percent d. 40 percent
10. In 2007, approximately how many Americans committed suicide?
a. 12,700
b. 23,000
c. 34,500
d. 55,600
11. Of the 34,500 Americans who committed suicide in 2007, what percent had a diagnosable mental disorder?
a. 20 percent b. 45 percent c. 65 percent d. 90 percent
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