What are the similarities and differences among anxiety, fear, and panic attacks?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer:
-anxiety is a future-oriented state characterized by negative affect in which a person focuses on the possibility of uncomfortable danger or misfortune
-in contrast, fear is a present-oriented state characterized by strong escapist tendencies and a surge in the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system in response to current danger

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The activation-synthesis model proposed by Hobson and McCarley is most useful as an explanation of the processes underlying hypnosis

a. true b. false

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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