What is a delusion? What type of delusions is most common in schizophrenia?
What will be an ideal response?
A delusion is a thought, a cognition, with no basis in reality. Common delusions involve believing that one's actions or thoughts are being controlled by some external force, that one's thoughts are being broadcasted, and that thoughts are being inserted into one's mind. These delusions are all consistent with the disorganized thoughts commonly seen in schizophrenia.
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The _______________ occurs when an individual believes the probability of finding a specific member in two overlapping categories is more likely than finding any member of one of the larger, general categories
A) anchoring effect B) representativeness error C) confirmation bias D) conjunction fallacy
Morphemes are combined into the next higher unit of language, called
(a) linguistic units (also called "Chomskies") (b) sentences (c) phonemes (d) words