False Sensory Perceptions That Often Take the Form of Hearing

question 8

Multiple Choice

False sensory perceptions that often take the form of hearing voices are called __________.

• A)hallucinations
• B)obsessions
• C)delusions
• D)compulsions

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic (such as the mean) computed from a sample, over repeated sampling from the same population.

Variability

The extent to which data points differ from each other and from the mean of the data set.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution that indicates the probabilities of a given statistic, which is acquired from a random sample.

T-distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.