Barbie Has Complained of an Unexplained Illness for Several Years

question 67

Multiple Choice

Barbie has complained of an unexplained illness for several years. She has had many painful and high-risk surgeries and other treatments, which she has willingly undergone. In fact, she seems to enjoy playing the "sick role." She gets extremely angry when anyone questions whether she really has an actual physical problem. These symptoms suggest that Barbie suffers from ____.

• A) malingering
• B) somatic symptom disorder
• C) factitious disorder
• D) illness anxiety disorder

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Definitions:

Forgetting Curve

A graph that describes the rate at which information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

Forgetting Rate

The speed at which information is lost from memory over time, an aspect of memory decay.

Intrusion Errors

Memory mistakes in which elements that were not part of the original information get mixed into (“intrude” into) someone’s recall.

Recall

The act of retrieving information or memories from the past, often without the stimulus that initially encoded the memory.