Gena has slept with the light on ever since she was a child. Her therapist believes this was caused by a learned association Gena made in childhood between a dark room and an unpleasant experience. This is most likely a(n) ________ disorder.

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Gena's fear of darkness and association of darkness with a negative experience is indicative of a phobic disorder, specifically a specific phobia of darkness or nyctophobia. This is different from dissociative disorders, which involve a disruption in a person's sense of identity, memory, or consciousness, and schizophrenia, which involves a range of symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. Affective disorders, or mood disorders, involve disturbances in a person's emotional state, such as depression or bipolar disorder, but this does not explain Gena's fear of darkness.

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