The patient talks with his dead brother and arranges furniture so that his brother will have a place to sit. The nurse documents this behavior as:
a. disordered thinking.
b. anhedonia.
c. hallucination.
d. alogia.
C
A hallucination is a sensory experience without a stimulus trigger.
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