The Cognitive Approach to Explaining the Etiology of Anxiety Disorders

question 191

Multiple Choice

The cognitive approach to explaining the etiology of anxiety disorders maintains that people who are more likely to develop anxiety disorders tend to do all of the following EXCEPT

• A) focus excessive attention on perceived threats.
• B) have a pessimistic explanatory style.
• C) selectively recall information that seems threatening.
• D) misinterpret harmless situations as threatening.

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Definitions:

Chi-Square

A statistical test used to determine if there's a significant association between two categorical variables.

Row Variable

A variable whose values are presented in rows within a table or matrix, often used in data analysis to compare categories horizontally.

Column Variable

A variable in data represented by columns in a table, often used in statistical analyses to differentiate groups or conditions.

Critical Value

A threshold value that defines the boundary of the critical region, where if the test statistic exceeds this value, the null hypothesis is rejected.