Question

In a made-for-TV movie you are watching, a woman hears the voices of angels every night before she falls asleep and at other times imagines herself to be the devil. Psychologists would classify the former behavour as and _____ lable the letters as an ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

hallucination; delusion.      

Explanation:

Hallucination: The term hallucination is described as a sensory perception or sensation that an individual experiences or feels without the presence of any similar external stimulus. Therefore, an individual experiencing hallucination feels something that has no real existence rather in the mind of the person. There are different types of hallucinations, visual, auditory, etc yet the most common type of hallucination is a visual hallucination.

Delusion: In psychology, the term delusion is described as an individual's rigid beliefs in which the person is preoccupied and holds that belief in the absence of logical absurdity and lack of evidence.

In the question above, the psychologists would the former behavior of the women as hallucination and the later behavior as delusion.