Obsessions are______________.a. feelings of jumpy anxiety. b. persistent, irrational fears of specific objects, activities, or s
ituations.c. periodic episodes of intense dread accompanied by frightening physical sensations.d. offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.
d. offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.
Explanation:
In psychology, the term obsession refers to recurring, intrusive thoughts/mental images that the person experiences and that generate anxiety or stress to the person and make the person feel the urge to do something about them in order to reduce the stress (and the behavior they do in order to reduce the stress is called compulsion).
Therefore, we can say that obsessions are d. offensive and unwanted thoughts that persistently preoccupy a person.
