A middle-aged man accosts you in a campus building and insists on telling you that several horses must have gotten into the building because he can hear them whinnying wherever he goes. This man is probably suffering from ____

a. ?abnormal excitement
b. ?a hallucination
c. ?a delusion
d. ?disorientation


ANSWER:
b

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