Persons with anxiety disorders who are hypervigilant are thought to have

Defective cognitive habits

Explanation:

Hyper-vigilance is the mental state in which a person tends to be highly alert and careful so that they can take immediate preventive measure in case of risk.This makes person anxious and uneasy.

In case of a person who is hypervigilant ,he /she can persist faulty cognition habits that impacts the normal mental functioning. The anxious behavior shown by the thoughts processed through mind results in unnecessary alert characteristic of person.Thus, faulty cognition habits are acquired by the perso.

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