Regarding the causes of anxiety disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Sixty percent of children born to parents suffering from panic disorder have a fearful, inhibited temperament and are at a high risk for anxiety problems when they become adults.
B)Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers believed that anxious individuals have built up unrealistic, mental images of themselves.
C)A behaviorist would explain that the powerful reward of immediate relief from anxiety keeps self-defeating avoidance behaviors alive.
D)Psychologists who take an existential view emphasize that unhealthy anxiety is caused by forbidden id impulses for sex or aggression that threaten to break through into behavior.

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The statement that psychologists who take an existential view emphasize that unhealthy anxiety is caused by forbidden id impulses for sex or aggression that threaten to break through into behavior is false. Existential psychologists focus on the individual's struggle to find meaning and purpose in life, and how anxiety arises from confronting the unknown and uncertain aspects of existence, rather than from repressed sexual or aggressive impulses.

Regarding the Causes of Anxiety Disorders, Which of the Following