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Anxiety
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/10/2009

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Biological
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Anxiety is related to chemicals in the body or to genetics.
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Evolutionary
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Anxiety is an adaptive response that prepares on to respond to potential threats in the environment. This helps humans survive and avoid situations or people that would arm them. Like traffic jams, crowding, ad the hectic pace of consumerism.
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Cognitive
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Focuses on how anxious people think differently from non anxious people. Anxious people may engage in more pessimistic thinking or worry that everything will go on.
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Psychodynamic
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Anxiety is the product of unresolved feelings of hostility, guilt, anger, or sexual attraction experienced in childhood.
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Behavioral
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Anxiety is a learned behavior much like Albert's fear of the white rat. It is a response that is associated with a specific stimulus or a response that has been rewarded.
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Sociocultural
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Anxiety is a product of a person's culture. Women more than me are anxious and fearful, this gender different results from differnt socialization experiences. Men are raise to believe they mustnot be afraid, so they are less likely to acknowledge or report anxiety. Women do not experience this pressure to hide their fears, so they are likely to tel others or to seek treatment.
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Humanistic
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Anxiety is rooted in peoples dissatisfaction with their real self,as compared to how they want to perceived.
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Eclectic
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Anxiety stems from various sources depending on the individual. One person may be prone because many people in his family are anxious due to past events, while someone else is because she is dissatisfied with herself and believes that everything always goes wrong in her life.
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