According to Intolerance of Uncertainty Theory, Individuals with Generalized Anxiety

question 88

Multiple Choice

According to intolerance of uncertainty theory, individuals with generalized anxiety disorder are:

• A) likely to have difficulty tolerating the knowledge that a negative event may occur.
• B) likely to underestimate the chances that any positive event will occur.
• C) able to tolerate uncertainty only in mildly threatening events.
• D) able to tolerate uncertainty only in severely threatening events.

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Definitions:

If-then Statement

A logical conditional statement stating that if one thing happens, then another will as well, expressing a causal or inferential relationship.

Asserted

Stated confidently or declared as true.

Disjunctive Syllogism

A logical rule that concludes one disjunct must be false if the other is true, usually in the form: Either A or B; not A; therefore, B.

Unstated Premise

A component of an argument that is not expressed but is assumed to be true for the argument to hold.