You overhear several students discussing a news report on Munchausen syndrome. Because you are taking a course in abnormal psychology, you recognize this syndrome to be an example of a(n)__________ disorder
a. anxiety
b. psychotic
c. traumatic
d. factitious
Answer: d.
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a) Its roots are in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. b) Ancient philosophers developed the concept to show how mind and body were separate. c) The origin is traced the category of hysteria, which was thought to be a disorder of the uterus. d) Ancient physicians used the concept to describe disorders that began with one set of symptoms and evolved into a different set of symptoms.
If you try to remember something but cannot, yet you know the information is in memory, you are experiencing the
a. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. b. psuedoamnesia phenomenon. c. Krensky syndrome. d. retrieval-delay phenomenon.