A person with schizophrenia is said to be ______ when he or she is acutely sensitive to extraneous sounds.
A) perseverating
B) clanging
C) hypervigilant
D) blocking

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Hypervigilance is a common symptom of schizophrenia, where the person is acutely sensitive to their environment and extraneous sounds. Perseveration is the repetition of a particular response, word, or phrase, and clanging is a speech pattern characterized by meaningless rhyming. Blocking refers to a person's sudden interruption in train of thought or speech.

A Person with Schizophrenia Is Said to Be ______ When