Regarding How the Four Psychological Perspectives View Anxiety Disorders, Which

question 561

Multiple Choice

Regarding how the four psychological perspectives view anxiety disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Psychologists who take a cognitive view believe that distorted thinking causes people to magnify ordinary threats and failures, which leads to distress and anxiety.
• B)Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers believed that anxious individuals have built up unrealistic, mental images of themselves.
• C)A behaviorist would explain that the powerful reward of immediate relief from anxiety keeps self-defeating avoidance behaviors alive.
• D)Psychologists who take an existential view emphasize that unhealthy anxiety is caused by forbidden id impulses for sex or aggression that threaten to break through into behavior.

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