People with Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

question 69

Multiple Choice

People with depersonalization-derealization disorder:

• A)complain of physical problems such as paralysis, pain, or a persistent belief that they have a serious disease.
• B)experience episodes of feeling detached from themselves or feeling that the world around them is unreal.
• C)have mood swings from ecstatic elation to deep depression.
• D)hold persistent, clearly delusional beliefs, often involving paranoid themes.

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Definitions:

Extended Exposure

A therapeutic technique involving repeated, prolonged contact with a feared stimulus, aiming to reduce anxiety or distress associated with it.

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon of learning and memory that refers to the reemergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the process of reducing or eliminating a conditioned response by discontinuing reinforcement.

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a response learned for one stimulus is involuntarily elicited by similar stimuli.