The BEST Example of Malingering Is a Person Who

question 135

Multiple Choice

The BEST example of malingering is a person who:

• A) fakes an illness because he or she enjoys being a patient.
• B) pretends to have an illness to get sympathy.
• C) falsely claims to have a terminal illness.
• D) feigns an illness to achieve some external gain, such as financial compensation.

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Definitions:

Traumatic Experience

An emotionally painful, shocking, stressful, or life-threatening event that may have lasting adverse effects on an individual's mental and emotional stability.

Personalities

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.

Factitious Disorders

Mental disorders in which individuals intentionally create, exaggerate, or feign illness or injury to receive attention, sympathy, or care.

Korsakoff's Syndrome

A chronic memory disorder often caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), commonly associated with prolonged alcoholism.