Fear and Anxiety Quiz

Fear is uncontrollable thoughts/images focused on potentially negative outcomes, while anxiety is a sense of impending doom.

Fear allows problem solving, while anxiety leads to emotional paralysis.

Fear is a reaction to a specific and present threat, while anxiety is an apprehension of an unspecified or unknown future danger. (correct)

Fear is more abstract and vague, while anxiety is a reaction to a specific and present threat.

The text specifies that symptoms of moderate anxiety include selective inattention to details, problem solving being hampered, and a lost ability to pay attention to surroundings.

Tension, increased pulse/respiratory rate, and mild somatic symptoms like nausea and sweating.

Selective inattention to details, problem solving is hampered, and lost ability to pay attention to surroundings. (correct)

Narrowed awareness of environment, automatic soothing behaviors, and sense of impending doom.

Depersonalization, emotional paralysis, and severe hyperactivity.

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When there is a reaction to a specific and present threat.

When anxiety leads to uncontrollable thoughts/images focused on potentially negative outcomes.

When cognitive, physical, and behavioral symptoms are excessive and persistent, causing significant distress and impeding social roles. (correct)

When there is a vague sense of dread and apprehension of an unspecified or unknown future danger.

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