Individuals Suffering with GAD Have a Series of Information Processing

question 78

Multiple Choice

Individuals suffering with GAD have a series of information processing biases which appear to maintain hyper-vigilance for threat,create further sources for worry,and maintain anxiety.Which of the following are examples of such biases?

• A)preferential allocation of attention to threatening stimuli and threatening information
• B) expecting negative outcomes following predictive cues in classical conditioning studies
• C)they resolve ambiguity by selecting the more negative or threatening interpretation of ambiguous information
• D)all of the above

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