Alison Becomes Very Anxious When She Has to Give a Speech

question 16

Multiple Choice

Alison becomes very anxious when she has to give a speech in front of an audience. Advocates of evolutionary personality theory might call Alison's problem an example of anxiety caused by

• A) conditioning.
• B) an inherited temperament.
• C) a fear of social exclusion.
• D) a fear of novel situations.

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