Question

Emily took the MMPI-2 and agreed with items such as "I have never seen an apple" or "sometimes I leave my body to travel through space." In fact, she endorsed 90 percent of similar items on that dimension. Based on her responses, Emily would score high on ______
a. hysteria
b. hypomania
c. depression
d. schizophrenia

Answer 1

Answer:

d. schizophrenia

Explanation:

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which shows the breakdown between thought, emotion and behaviour. This cause someone to withdraw from reality and drift towards immaginary fantasy.

In the case of Emily, her experience of driftng away from reality leading to her making statements like "I leave my body to travel through space"are part of the symtoms that shows someone exhibiting the mental disorder-schizophrenia.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is d.) Schizophrenia

Explanation:

Schizophrenia is considered as a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally, this may result in some combinationation of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavioral patterns that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.