This type of anxiety can motivate you to prepare and perform well.
What is healthy test anxiety
This involves inhaling and exhaling slowly
What is deep breathing
A physiologic response to a perceived threat
Fight or Flight
This anxiety makes your heart race, increases breathing, and feelings of panic
What is unhealthy test anxiety
These symptoms mean you need help from campus services or your instructor
What is skipping class, poor grades, interferes with daily life
This is the effect of anxiety on the brain
What is your mind going blank / impaired thinking
This is a real physical response to upcoming test
What is test anxiety
This involves talking to yourself
positive affirmations or encouraging words
Cramming/ all nighter
True or false: Test anxiety is not real
What is false
These breathing exercises are strategies that help alleviate test anxiety.
What is deep breathing?
True or false: test anxiety activates the autonomic nervous causing a fight or flight reaction.
What is true