The most common psychotic hallucinations are tactile sensations in which the person feels like "insects are crawling under his or her skin."

Which of the following sayings is most strongly supported by the body of research on pessimistic and optimistic explanatory styles?

a. Nothing succeeds like success. b. To thine own self be true. c. There is power in positive thinking. d. Charity begins at home.

Sam displays symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia; she feels ill after eating her lunch two days in a row. One of her symptoms is a paranoid belief that her coworkers are poisoning her. This type of belief is associated with

A. conflicts with society. B. a nervous breakdown. C. a psychosis. D. adaptive behavior.