PSY340H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Test Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System
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Anxiety disorders: anxiety that unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension, anxiety is regarded as having two distinguishable components: Physiological component the heightened level of arousal and physiological activation. The heightened arousal and tension as reflected by symptoms such as higher heart rate. Cognitive component subjective perception of the anxious arousal and the associated cognitive processes: worry and rumination: anxiety tends to be future-focused; the emphasis on things that could happen. Anxiety and worry can be reinforced by the avoidance of feared outcomes and possible experiences that never happen: test anxiety a form of anxiety that most students can relate to. Test-irrelevant thinking tendency of the mind to wander when it is difficult to concentrate: it is normal and perhaps even adaptive to experience some degree of anxiety in potentially life-threatening situations that jeopardize someone"s survival. Anxiety must be chronic, relatively intense, associated with role impairment and causing significant distress for self or others.
