7L

Question 1

Biases in anxiety

Answer 1

Attention, Interpretation, Expectation

Question 2

Developmental risks for social

anxiety

Answer 2

 “Emotional brain”
 Amplification of biases in attention and
expectancy

 “Social brain”
 Amplification of biases in interpretation

Question 3

What is ‘abnormal’ in social

anxiety?

Answer 3

 Different components of emotion process

 Physiological arousal 
 Cognitive processing 
 Motor expression 
 Subjective feeling state 
 Action tendencies 

 Not only negative: evolutionary function

 Emotion socialization process

 Biological influences
 Parental influences
 Peer influences