People who experience a positive event, get excited, breath harder, and have an increase in their heart rate, then interpret the symptoms as a heart attack, are experiencing what cognitive theorists call:

Anxiety Sensitivity is the behaviors and fears which are associated with anxiety. The sensations related to anxiety are mistaken for a harmful experience which can aggravate the fear and anxiety even more. That is why the positive event's experience can be interpreted as heart attack.

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blessinglovely41 blessinglovely41 · Answer 2 · 2020-03-17T09:19:43+01:00

Answer: ANXIETY SENSITIVITY

Explanation: anxiety sensitivity according to theorists is a personality trait that involves a high level of belief that certain bodily supremos ( behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of non-human animal subjects in control) may have harmful consequences. examples of anxiety sensitivity are blood injection injury phobia; persistent and disproportionate fear of the sight of blood or injury, or the possibility of having an injection.

or an individual fearing the pounding heart that comes from walking into a room of strangers, thinking a heart attack is around the corner.