When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Foreign language anxiety - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_anxiety

    In contrast, anxiety becomes a cause of poor language learning, leading that student to then be unable to adequately learn the target language. [2] There can be various physical causes of anxiety, such as hormone levels, but the underlying causes of excessive anxiety while learning are fear [17] and a lack of confidence. [citation needed] [18]

  3. Pilar Pedraza - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar_Pedraza

    Pilar Pedraza Martínez (born 12 October 1951) is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Biography

  4. List of phobias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias

    fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls Teratophobia fear of giving birth to a monster [38] or a disfigured foetus [39] Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4: Thalassophobia: fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean: Thanatophobia: fear of dying, a synonym of death anxiety; not to be confused with necrophobia: Thermophobia

  5. The Concept of Anxiety - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_Anxiety

    The Concept of Anxiety pp. 12, 39. Kierkegaard also writes about an individual's disposition in The Concept of Anxiety. He was impressed with the psychological views of Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz who wrote: In Rosenkranz's Psychology there is definition of disposition [Gemyt]. On page 322 he says that disposition is the unity of feeling ...

  6. Stage fright - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_fright

    Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia that may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, real or imagined, whether actually or potentially (for example, when performing before a camera). Performing in front of an unknown audience can cause significantly more ...

  7. Fear-avoidance model - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear-avoidance_model

    An example of the fear-avoidance model, anxiety sensitivity stems from the fear that the symptoms of anxiety will lead to harmful social and physical effects. As a result, the individual delays the situation by avoiding any stimuli related to pain-inducing situations and activities, becoming restricted in normal daily function.

  8. Worry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry

    A young girl looking worried. Worry is a category of perseverative cognition, i.e. a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. [3] As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or ...

  9. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_clown_paradox

    The joke also appears in the Spanish poem Reír Llorando [45] ("Laughing While Crying") by the late 19th century Mexican poet Juan de Dios Peza. [46] The poem tells of an English actor called Garrick that a doctor recommends to his patient as the only cure for his loss of interest in life, whereupon the patient reveals that he indeed is Garrick.