Research Suggests That Information Processing Biases May Be Involved in the Development

question 13

Multiple Choice

Research suggests that information processing biases may be involved in the development of persecutory delusions.Which of the following factors are important in contributing to the development of cognitive biases involved in persecutory ideation?

• A)Anomalous experiences
• B)Anxiety,depression and worry that would normally cause a bias towards negative thinking and threatening interpretations of events
• C)Reasoning biases on the part of the individual which lead them to seek confirmatory evidence for their persecutory interpretations rather than question them
• D)All of the above

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