An Optimal Strategy for Coping with Performance Anxiety Includes ____

question 18

Multiple Choice

An optimal strategy for coping with performance anxiety includes ____.

• A) eliminates the imagination of negative possibilities, and think about the positive outcomes of a successful presentation
• B) remember that one cannot control other's reactions or judgments, but only one's own performance
• C) refocus one's attention away from self and increase one's awareness of others, without considering them as judges
• D) reduce the imagined power of others by increasing the sense of one's own power
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Organizational Pattern

The arrangement of ideas, evidence, or details in a coherent structure within a piece of writing or speech.

Readers' Expectations

The anticipated or assumed set of beliefs and thoughts that readers bring to a text, affecting their understanding and interpretation.

Whole-by-Whole

A method of comparison and contrast that examines each subject in its entirety before moving on to the next.

Comparison-and-Contrast

involves highlighting the similarities and differences between two or more subjects.