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  2. Foreign language anxiety - Wikipedia

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    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. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. The Concept of Anxiety - Wikipedia

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    The original 1944 English translation by Walter Lowrie (now out of print), was named The Concept of Dread. [1] The Concept of Anxiety was dedicated "to the late professor Poul Martin Møller ". Kierkegaard used the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (which, according to Josiah Thompson , is the Latin transcription for "the Watchman" [ 2 ] [ 3 ] of ...

  5. Pilar Pedraza - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Worry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Anxiety disorders differ from developmentally normal fear or anxiety by being excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods. They differ from transient fear or anxiety, often stress-induced, by being persistent (e.g., typically lasting 6 months or more), although the criterion for duration is intended as a general guide ...

  8. Stage fright - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Anticipatory anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Anticipatory anxiety, sometimes called future tripping, describes a type of fear that occurs when an anticipated event in the future causes distress. These events can include both major occasions, such as a presentation, but depending on the individual could also happen before some minor event, like going out.