While doing volunteer work in a mental hospital, Mary is put on a ward for adults with severe mental disorders. One patient is very suspicious of everyone, hears voices, and suffers from the delusion that the CIA is trying to kill her so she won't reveal information that threatens the nation's security. The psychiatrist tells Mary that this patient suffers from ______.
a. paranoid personality disorder
b. antisocial personality disorder
c. paranoid schizophrenia
d. undifferentiated schizophrenia
C
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a. selectivity b. modifiability c. biology d. karma
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