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Imagine that your professor instructs the class to break into groups of four to five students. While in your group you hear someone in the group next to you utter your name. Which of the following explanations BEST accounts for why this occurred?
 
  A) People are narcissistic by nature and actively listen to others hoping they will pay attention to them.
  B) Stimuli related to the self are given perceptual priority among the many competing demands on attention.
  C) The spotlight effect increases attention upon ambiguous stimuli.
  D) People make sense of their own world by being consciously aware and vigilant to cues related to self.

Question 2

Jerry is terrified of snakes and refuses to read nature books to his son if there are pictures of snakes. He is probably suffering from
 
  A) panic disorder.
  B) phobic disorder.
  C) generalized anxiety disorder.
  D) no disorder since this is a normal fear.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B



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