All day long, Tate keeps hearing in his mind the jingle to a television commercial he watched last night. Though he doesn't even like the jingle, he cannot seem to get it out of his head, and it is beginning to make him angry. In fact, each time he thinks of the song, he gets more and more upset. Tate's thoughts of the television jingle are a(n) __________.

A. delusion
B. hallucination
C. obsession
D. compulsion


Answer: C

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