Question

Making up medical or psychiatric symptoms to get attention (but without realizing that it is to get attention) is known by the name of ____________ disorder.

a. Tourette
b. Munchausen
c. Beck
d. Rorschach

Answer 1

b. Munchausen

Step-by-step explanation:

The Munchausen disorder is a psychiatric disorder closely associated with severe emotional difficulties in which a person repeatedly pretends to have psychiatric or physical symptoms, such as chest pain, stomach problems, fever and allusions, or tries to get ill (For example, by trying to hurt themselves) in order to draw attention, sympathy or reassurance to themselves.