According to Cognitive Theorists, Anxiety ______

question 27

Multiple Choice

According to cognitive theorists, anxiety ______.

• A) results from conditioned fears that were acquired in early childhood
• B) is acquired through observational learning in childhood
• C) results from genetically inherited predispositions and a sensitive nervous system
• D) is maintained by exaggerating the consequences of threatening events

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Definitions:

Coefficients Of Correlation

Numerical indices that represent the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables.

Negative Linear Relationship

A relationship between two variables where as the value of one variable increases, the value of the second variable decreases, forming a straight line in a graphical representation.

Variables Of Interest

Specific items or characteristics that researchers aim to study, measure or manipulate within a study.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a specified level of confidence.