Fear conditioning

The cause of anxiety from a behavioral perspective is operant conditioning, which is basically where learning revolves around taking into account the implications of an action. Specifically, this type of learning is controlled by individuals taking the environment in consideration and its positive and negative reinforcements. Moreover, the cause of anxiety from a psychoanalytical perspective is through the repression of traumatic experiences such as a death or an accident. Relatively,…

person who has a phobia. Phobics avoid the object of their fear at all costs, to the point where it is unreasonably affecting their normal lives. Dr. R. Reid Wilson says: “I had a woman come in who was afraid of spiders, and it got to the point where she wouldn 't go out at night because she couldn 't see where they were.” Phobias that impair people and disrupt their…

This is an example of an environmental factor affecting the child, potentially giving them a higher risk of nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance, fear, guilt, anxiety, rage, and insomnia. Dissociation is a common byproduct of this abusive uprising. Provided attachment builds trust, motivation to achieve and willingness to be bold, young kids exposed to extended abuse, trauma, and neglect are at a…

She points out that “it was strange — and insulting — to have my courage doubted. I never heard my male colleagues asked this. Apparently, fear is expected of women” to claim that the essential difference between women and men is that women are behooved to keep away from fear in their opinion. When people asked whether she were scared, the answer is obvious, of course she was scared because no one wouldn’t be scared running to a house burning up in flames…

A Brief Reflection into Panic Disorder Anxiety disorders manifest themselves differently within each effected person; some have phobias or OCD that can range from mild to severe, and others suffer from more severe disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder and panic disorder. Panic disorders can be a very rough issue to deal with if a person is not willing to seek out help and talk about the difficulties they are facing. This paper will go over the prevalence, symptoms, and causes…

The goal of this paper is to identify problem areas in my life that add to or reinforce negative behaviors. In order to do so I am going to look at my life and mental issues as they pertain to sections we are currently covering and have covered in this course. I have already completed the paper that tests the Big 5 personality characteristics. These were very insightful, but they contained information I already knew quite well. My biggest issue, that was made abundantly clear by the tests was…

What are anxiety disorders? Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Fear is an emotion that people feel when they believe they are in danger or something is threat to them. There are many different anxiety disorders. Some of the many disorder are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorders, Phobic Disorders,…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) deals with an illogical link from the obsession to the compulsion, or ritual. The obsession is the source of the individual’s fears, such as germs or death, and the ritual is the practices one performs, such as washing one’s hands or blinking a certain number of times, as an alleviation of their obsession. The link may or may not make sense to the individual; with the latter case, the ritual is mainly performed just in case something bad was to happen. Those…

Everyone has a fear. When we were little, we were afraid of the monsters that lived under our beds; however, when one grows up fear always tends to get in the way. Fear is this adrenaline that runs through ones body not knowing what to do next. People can act upon fear in two ways; run from it or face it. Fear can eventually turn into a phobia. Depending on how progressive your fear is, making one panic, by just seeing someone or hearing about someone who is in an incident that one could be…

it (Maddox, et al., 2016). The undergraduate is experiencing moderate amount of anxiety which is quite common in daily life. The moderate amount of anxiety is beneficial as it helps us avoid the impending danger but experiencing intense episodes of fear and apprehension frequently can become hazardous. Maladaptive anxiety can be defined by three ways: intensity, chronicity, and degree of impairment (Maddox, et al., 2016). First, anxiety that is intense and out-of-proportion is considered…