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
ANSWER: a
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The events we use to trigger emotions in infants are termed:
A) mood elicitors. B) stimulus events. C) emotional elicitors. D) emotional regulators.