ANXIETY

Today was my turn to do my oral presentation, I was so nervous. I honestly can say I bombed it. I wrote it down, but when it came down to presenting, it came out all wrong. So this was how I wrote it down.

  Anxiety is both a feeling and cognition. Psychologists today say it is two kinds of contemporary perspectives and that’s learning and biological. In the learning perspective; anxiety usually develops when a bed event happens that’s uncontrolled or even unpredictable. In the exploring psychology book on page 466 it talks about two learning processes that contribute to anxiety which are stimulus generalization and reinforcement. The first part of this process is stimulus generalization Take me for example, I was shot in Chicago Illinois, when I’m in Chicago I feel uneasy riding down the street I was shot on. Reinforced is the second part of the learning process. This is when we maintain our compulsion and phobias when and after they arise. Like avoiding the fear reduces the feeling of anxiety. With me people say it may be PTSD but my fear only happens when I’m on the street I get shot on, it doesn’t happen when I’m riding  any other street in Chicago. The biological perspective can help understand why people develop lasting phobias after suffering tragic events, hwy we learn fear and why some people are more vulnerable. Say if your mother was afraid of spiders nine time out of ten you would be afraid of them too. We are biologically prepared to fear it's passed through our genes.  Phobias concentrate on our fears.