Ja'quan is watching the news. The first story is about a little girl who was murdered. He feels certain that this story is a message especially for him that contains hidden meaning. Ja'quan's belief that the news story is a message for him illustrates delusions

a. thought broadcasting
b. persecutory
c. somatic
d. referential


d

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The primacy effect refers to the tendency for a. people's impressions of others to be influenced by their memory of events that have just recently occurred. b. perceivers to choose to make personal versus situational attributions as a function of which type is initiallyavailable c. people to first make situational attributions and then, only later, to insufficiently correct these attributions

so asto take dispositions into account. d. people's impressions of others to be more affected by information that is learned early rather than late in asequence.

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Erikson's theory of social development viewed the period from ages 3 to 6, his third stage, as characterized by the major challenge of:

a) identity versus role diffusion. b) industry versus inferiority. c) initiative versus guilt. d) autonomy versus shame and doubt.

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During stage 4 sleep, EEG recordings of the brain's electrical activity generally show

__________ activity. a. alpha b. beta c. theta d. delta e. gamma

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To test for ________, Piaget asked children to arrange sticks of different lengths from shortest to longest.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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