test anxiety
Strategies
Physiology
100

This type of anxiety can motivate you to prepare and perform well.

What is healthy test anxiety

100

This involves inhaling and exhaling slowly

What is deep breathing

100

A physiologic response to a perceived threat

Fight or Flight

200

This anxiety makes your heart race, increases breathing, and feelings of panic 

What is unhealthy test anxiety

200

These symptoms mean you need help from campus services or your instructor

What is skipping class, poor grades, interferes with daily life

200

This is the effect of anxiety on the brain

What is your mind going blank / impaired thinking

300

This is a real physical response to upcoming test

What is test anxiety

300

This involves talking to yourself

positive affirmations or encouraging words

300
Avoid this the night before a test

Cramming/ all nighter

400

True or false: Test anxiety is not real

What is false

400

These breathing exercises are strategies that help alleviate test anxiety.

What is deep breathing?

400

True or false: test anxiety activates the autonomic nervous causing a fight or flight reaction.

What is true