Children Who Were Raised in Severely Overcrowded Orphanages and Got

question 350

Multiple Choice

Children who were raised in severely overcrowded orphanages and got almost no attention from adults for the first year or two of their lives

• A)were able to readily establish secure attachments once adopted.
• B)craved constant attention and wanted to be held a great deal of the time.
• C)were more fearful of strangers once they established an attachment with their adoptive families.
• D)were anxious and remote and would not make eye contact with others.

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Definitions:

Conversion Disorder

A mental condition in which a person experiences neurological symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis, without a physical cause.

Cynical Personality

A personality trait characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspicion of others' motives and intentions.

Factitious Disorder

A psychological disorder characterized by the deliberate fabrication of symptoms or self-infliction of injury in order to assume the sick role without external incentives.

Munchausen Syndrome

Munchausen Syndrome is a psychiatric disorder wherein individuals purposely feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves.