People with Illness Anxiety Disorder Are Consciously Faking Their Symptoms

question 128

True/False

People with Illness Anxiety Disorder are consciously faking their symptoms.

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Definitions:

Generalization

The tendency to apply learned behavior to similar situations, beyond the original conditions of learning.

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or gender.

Biofeedback Training

A technique that teaches individuals to improve their health by controlling certain bodily processes that normally happen involuntarily.

Counterconditioning

Counterconditioning is a therapy technique used to replace negative or harmful responses to a stimulus with positive ones.