A patient with panic disorder tends to interpret the rapid beating of his heart as a heart attack; a cognitive psychologist would call this
a. automatic thinking.
b. catastrophic misinterpretation.
c. illusion of predictability.
d. "what-if" thinking.
Answer: b.
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b. do not show the same center-surround organization as bipolar receptive fields. c. are smaller in the periphery than in the macula. d. are smaller in the macula than in the periphery.
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a) ultimate b) lower c) optimal d) high