Norton hears disembodied voices all the time that give him strange commands. Yesterday he finished building a concrete landing paid in his backyard for a UFO.The voices have told him that the space craft will land over the weekend and take him to more advanced civilization 27 light years from earth.In this case the voices that Norton hears are ___________?

Correct answer: D. hallucinations

  • A. delusions
  • B. compulsions
  • C. loosening of associations
  • D. hallucinations

Explanation

Hearing voices that are not produced by an external source is an auditory hallucination. The belief about the UFO landing is a delusion, but it describes Norton's belief rather than the voices themselves.

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