To Study How Anxiety Disorders Develop in Individuals, a Researcher

question 8

Multiple Choice

To study how anxiety disorders develop in individuals, a researcher asks a group of adults whether they were anxious about school when they were children, and then measures their current functioning with respect to symptoms of anxiety.What is one significant limitation of this approach?

• A)The information about childhood experiences is retrospective in nature and may not be accurate.
• B)It confuses age differences with cohort effects.
• C)It measures only change within individuals, not differences between groups.
• D)Genetics and early life experiences are confounded.

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