Anne is a nurse at a residential treatment center for people with schizophrenia. One day, she enters a patient's room and finds them completely immobile and in an awkward pose. The most likely explanation, given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, is that the patient

A. is immersed in an especially vivid hallucination.
B. is showing a freeze response due to an especially scary delusion.
C. received too high a dose of the tranquilizers used to medicate their schizophrenia.
D. is displaying a low-movement catatonic state.


Answer: D

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