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Generalizing from past experiences can be adaptive by allowing those experiences to guide behavior in new situations. Generalizing too much, however, can be maladaptive. For example, individuals with pathological anxiety… Click to show full abstract
Generalizing from past experiences can be adaptive by allowing those experiences to guide behavior in new situations. Generalizing too much, however, can be maladaptive. For example, individuals with pathological anxiety are believed to overgeneralize emotional responses from past threats, broadening their scope of fears. Whether individuals with pathological anxiety overgeneralize in other situations remains unclear.
Keywords:
compulsive disorder;
obsessive compulsive;
loss obsessive;
generalization reward;
impaired generalization;
reward loss
Journal Title: Depression and Anxiety
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Depression and Anxiety
Year Published: 2019
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