According to the biological perspective, generalized anxiety disorder is _________

a) a danger signal that repressed conflicts are threatening to surface
b) a learned reaction
c) the result of illogical, irrational thought processes
d) linked to an imbalance in several neurotransmitters in the nervous system


ANS: d

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