Question

anxiety is the actual experience of apprehension and uncontrolled arousal and ______ anxiety is a personality characteristic, which represents a latent disposition to perceive situations as threatening.

Answer 1

Answer:

State anxiety is the actual experience of apprehension and uncontrolled arousal and trait anxiety is a personality characteristic, which represents a latent disposition to perceive situations as threatening.

Explanation:

State anxiety: It is basically a "right now" feeling which changes from moment to moment, manifesting itself as an interruption of an individual's emotion state, leading to a sudden superversion of emotional equilibrium, caused by external factors of current state. e.g An atheletes emotional state at any given time that is variable from situation to situation.

Trait anxiety: It is a personality disposition which is stable over time. e.g An atheletes disposition to interpreting a situation as threatning and responding with an increase in state anxiety.