Research on cognitive biases among individuals with anxiety disorders shows that

a. their attention is biased toward threatening information
b. their attention is biased away from threatening information
c. threatening information must be consciously perceived before it can be feared
d. threatening information is rarely perceived as threatening


Ans: A

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