How does childhood cognitive capacity affect anxiety development?
Children with high cognitive capacity possess significant processing power but lack experiential data to ground their predictions. As a result, their brains generate sophisticated interpretations of adverse events without the necessary context to evaluate them critically. This can lead to the formation of maladaptive schemas that encode deep beliefs about inadequacy and safety, which ultimately shape their perception of the world.
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