When Someone Has One or More Somatic Symptoms That Are

question 55

Multiple Choice

When someone has one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing and result in impairment in important life activities and when the person experiences excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the somatic symptoms or associated health concern, the person might most appropriately be diagnosed with

• A) somatopsychosis.
• B) somatic symptom disorder.
• C) attentional need disorder.
• D) dissociative hysteria.

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Definitions:

Critical Value(s)

Threshold(s) in hypothesis testing that define the boundary or boundaries for rejecting the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in hypothesis testing that there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against.

Critical Value(s)

Specific point(s) on the scale of a test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis in statistical testing.

P-Value

Under the assumption that the null hypothesis is valid, it is the probability of observing test results that are as extreme or even more so than the ones actually observed.