How much do you know about anxiety and its origins, functions, consequences and disorders? Do you know psychophysiological mechanisms that generates anxious answers? Test your knowledge with our quiz. Anyone can take it now:
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Anxiety is:
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a. Harmful b. Physiological c. Abnormal d. Wrong |
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What is anxiety?
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a. Physical problem b. Inert fear c. Natural reaction of our organism d. A mental disorder |
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From the list on the right, which one of them is not an anxiety disorder? |
a. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder c. Agoraphobia |
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Performance anxiety usually occurs: |
a. Before performance b. During performance c. Before and during performance d. After performance |
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What function does anxiety perform? |
a. It produces damages to the mind b. It keeps dangers away c. It has no functions d. It prepares the organism for a reaction |
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What is agoraphobia? |
a. Fear of feeling bad and not being helped b. Fear of tight spaces c. Fear of other peopled. d. Fear of the dark |
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When agoraphobia usually happens? |
a. Among other people b. When being alone c. In the sleep d. At home |
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Agoraphobia usually combined together with the following anxiety disorder |
c. Phobias |
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The main origin of post-traumatic personality stress disorder is: |
a. A personality disorder b. A dreadful experience c. An obsession |
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When post-traumatic personality stress disorder was observe for the first time? |
a. During Vietnam war b. During world war II c. During world war I d. During Gulf war |
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Separation anxiety is a reaction that usually shows in: |
a. Adult people b. Elderly people c. Children d. Animals |
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Which of the following symptoms do not belong to anxiety disorders? |
b. Nausea d. Sweating |
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A compulsion behavior is: |
a. Repetitive behavior or mental action |
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What is phobia? |
a. The fear of social situations b. Strong fear of making mistakes c. Fear of things, people or specific situations d. Fear of animals |
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How long does a panic attack usually last? |
a. Whole day b. 30 seconds c. Minutes d. Hours |
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What type of anxiety disorders cause continuous flashbacks? |
a. Panic disorder with agoraphobia b. Anxiety disorder and acute stress disorder c. Post-traumatic and acute stress disorder d. Social phobia and specific phobia |
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What does is avoidance in terms of anxiety disorders? |
a. Ability to avoid dangerous situations b. Ability not to have emotions c. Inability to avoid a certain situation or thing d. Necessity to avoid certain situations or things |
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What type of anxiety disorders don’t create avoidance? |
a. Agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder b. Obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder, c. Generalized anxiety disorder, phobias d. Phobias, panic disorder, acute stress disorder |
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What the meaning of “secondary gain” in terms of anxiety disorders? |
a. An obtained facilitation due to them b. A hidden purpose behind them c. A second disorder generated from them d. A particular ability generated by them |
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What do you call a blood phobia? |
a. Hemophobia c. Achluophobia d. Emetophobia |
Results of the quiz:
Calculate all properly answered questions, divide them by 20 and multiply by 100 to get the percentage of the correct answers:
If you score is less than 50%:
It is low score. You need to read more about anxiety by using embedded hyperlinks.
If you score is between 50% and 80%: It is an average score. You know anxiety and its effects well enough.
If you score is over 80%:
You have a high score. You are well-informed on the subject of anxiety! Congratulations!







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