trait anxiety

proneness to experience anxiety. People with high trait anxiety tend to view the world as more dangerous or threatening than those with low trait anxiety and to respond with state anxiety to situations that would not elicit this response in people with low trait anxiety. [defined in 1972 and 1983 by Charles D. Spielberger]

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April 29th 2024

time error

in psychophysics, a misjudgment due to the relative position of stimuli in time. For example, the first of two identical tones sounded consecutively tends to be judged as louder than the second.