COMM 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Systematic Desensitization, Tenseness, Presentation Program
12 Mar 2016
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Although anxiety is common, speaking in public is identified as people"s greatest fear. speech anxiety - a multisystem response that creates a combination of biochemical changes in the body in a communication situation. A chemical reactive condition, our bodies secrete hormones that overload our physical and emotional processes. Learned behavior communication apprehension - the most severe form, defined as an anxiety syndrome associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons. People who have this perceive that their silence has more advantages and the disadvantages are greater. Anxieties go far beyond those of native speakers. Feeling inferior, unwelcome, nervous in american classroom setting, afraid the translation process would be too long, afraid they wouldn"t understand assignments. You have to have the desire to do so and not let failure hold you back. No cures - only ways to reduce, manage and control it.
