Gwen has always experienced extreme anxiety regarding tests.After seeing a counselor, she learned how to regulate her emotions during exam week.Instead of thinking about the
Exams as a threat,she thinks of the exams as an opportunity to show how thoroughly she
Studied and how much she knows.Which strategy is Gwen using to regulate her emotions?
A) reappraisal
B) thought suppression
C) distraction
D) rumination

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Gwen is using reappraisal, a cognitive strategy that involves changing the way one thinks about a potentially emotion-eliciting event in order to alter its emotional impact. By reframing her view of exams from a threat to an opportunity, she is effectively changing her emotional response to them.

Gwen Has Always Experienced Extreme Anxiety Regarding Tests