A 74-year-old woman is referred three months after her husband died. Two or three times a week, while she is s…

Question

A 74-year-old woman is referred three months after her husband died. Two or three times a week, while she is standing at the kitchen sink, she hears him call her name - not out in the room, she says, but inside her own head, like a memory turned up loud. She knows at once that it is not really him. She sleeps and eats normally, sees her grandchildren every weekend, has no low mood and describes no other unusual experiences. Which one of the following best describes what she is experiencing?

Accepted Answer

Pseudohallucination

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Auditory hallucination

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Functional hallucination

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Hypnagogic hallucination

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Illusion

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