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A. Participants tend to generalize from their observations and assume that what they experience in one situation applies to all similar situations.
B. It is expensive, time-consuming, and gives relatively unreliable results.
C. Participants might give socially desirable or false answers rather than honest ones because the questions are transparent.
D. It requires an outside criterion of who is anxious or not, such as a therapist's evaluation of the anxiety levels, to relate to such method.


Answer: C

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