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The Effect of the Type of Word on Anxiety
Anxiety is a state of restlessness and agitation, uncertainty and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation (The American Heritage). ... It is believed that a person who is presented with a shocking word, will have an immediate effect of their level of arousal, anxiety, and this will cause a physiological response. ... Although such a word as “divorce” might not be shocking to us consciously, it indeed has a negative connotation in our subconscious. ... This apparatus demonstrates the change of an individual’s level of arousal after being read a certain emotionally charged word. ... Freud (1960), also thought about the anxiety certain words produced in our mind. He believed that when an individual forgot a particular word it had a reason, this reason being anxiety or uneasiness on the relation the forgotten word had on a personal issue.
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