What is the difference between malingering and factitious disorder?
What will be an ideal response?
Both disorders involve the conscious faking of physical symptoms. The malingerer,
however, has a clear reason for the faked symptoms while the individual with factitious
disorder apparently is making complaints for no apparent external cause. The child who
feigns illness to miss school is malingering while the teen who adopts the "sick roll" for
the attention he gains may meet the diagnostic criteria for factitious disorder.
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a. the only nonhuman species that commits murder. b. the only nonhuman species that steals from members of its own group. c. extremely peaceful. d. led by a female hierarchy.
What part of the frontal lobe is most affected by aging?
a. dorsolateral b. ventromedial c. rear strip d. all of it