What benefit do those with generalized anxiety disorder derive from worrying?

What will be an ideal response?


Research has revealed that worrying does have a positive effect on those with GAD. While it does not prevent catastrophe, when those with GAD worry, emotional and physiological responses to negative stimuli are suppressed. In other words, the act of worrying about an event lessens the impact of that event if and when it does occur.

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Self-esteem is the ______ of our self-concept.

A. creation B. adjustment C. evaluation D. projection

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Young children are able to use retrieval cues provided to them by adults to remember things

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A patient reports that her first panic attack was frightening and embarrassing. She was in the mall and people gathered around her. Over the next few months, the attacks started occurring more frequently, almost always in public places

Now she is afraid to leave the safety of her house. It appears that this individual has developed a. agoraphobia. b. schizophrenia. c. a mood disorder. d. a dissociative disorder.

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People who sustain damage to their __________ are still able to perform quite well on

standard intelligence tests but lack __________ intelligence, a finding that provides partial support for Sternberg's theory of intelligence. a. frontal lobes; practical b. thalamus; creative c. occipital lobe; fluid d. association cortex; crystallized e. limbic system; analytic

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