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Shannon Koehn
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If a person's bodily symptoms affect his or her voluntary motor and sensory functions, but the symptoms are inconsistent with known medical diseases, this condition is referred to as:

A) malingering.
B) illness anxiety disorder.
C) selective symptomatology.
D) conversion disorder.

Conversion Disorder

A mental condition where patients experience neurological symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis, without a physical cause, often as a response to psychological stress.

Medical Diseases

Conditions that affect the body's structures or functions and are typically characterized by specific signs and symptoms, often with a known cause.

Sensory Functions

The physiological capacities of organisms that provide data for perception, including sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

  • Discern the distinctions between disorders such as Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, conversion disorder, and somatic symptom disorder.
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