Introduction:
Anxiety is defined as the general word used to describe several disorders which lead to nervousness, fear, and apprehension and worrying. Such disorders may affect a person’s feeling and behavior and can cause physical symptoms.
Answer to Problem 10TY
Correct answer:
The cognitive-behavioral psychologist classifies distorted thought process as all-or-nothing thinking. Therefore, option c. is correct.
Option c. is given as “all-or-nothing thinking”.
Explanation of Solution
Reasons for the correct statement:
Cognitive-behavioral psychologists identify anxiety as related to another distorted thought process called all-or-nothing thinking. It is a type of anxiety disorder in which a person thinks that its performance is either perfect or total failure.
Hence, option c. is correct.
Reasons for the incorrect statements:
Option a. is given as “magnification”.
Magnification is a type of disorder which involves tendency of a person to interpret situations which is more dangerous, harmful or important than the actual situation. Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Option b. is given as “overgeneralization”.
It is a type of disorder which involves a tendency of a person to interpret a single negative event in the form of never ending pattern of defeat and failure. Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Option d. is given as “minimization”.
Minimization involves distortion of thinking in which a person imagines a negative event out of proportion to its importance and ignores relevant positive events. Hence, it is a wrong answer.
Hence, options a., b., and d. are incorrect.
All-or-nothing thinking is a type of type of anxiety disorder in which a person thinks that its performance is either perfect or total failure.
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