A person who experiences rather dramatic and specific symptoms such as blindness, paralysis, deafness, or numbness of certain body parts, none of which have real physical causes will probably be diagnosed with __________

a) conversion disorder
b) somatization disorder
c) illness anxiety disorder
d) dissociative disorder


ANS: A

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