Drive Reduction, Emotion

Decent Essays
Keywords: Drive, Drive Reduction, Emotion
Summary: The article that I read involved why people enjoy fear. In the article, it mentioned that the levels of dopamine that someone has comes down to the mix of genes, the environment, and early development. The article states that the people tend to remember scary situations than they are to remember positive experiences. An example of this may be going through a haunted house. If you have a positive association with a haunted house, you will likely want to go to that haunted house again. This has a lot to do with fear. When people are exposed to fear, they feel arousal form the experience and likely want to have a similar experience.
Relevance: Chapter 7 refers to the relevance of the words drive

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    3.08 Critical Thinking

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages

    8.) Do not indulge in fear-motivated behavior; instead, replace it with behavior motivated by emotions of love and compassion. Usually, we tend to think about the disappointing moments of our past. That leads to the development of fear. Thinking about our past events leads to fear that they should not recur, and we feel threatened by such fears.…

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Amygdala's Fear Response

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages

    There have been a number of approaches taken to study fear: the neurobiological approach is one of them. This essay will be tracing a chain of neurobiological events which…

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. (5 points) Explain why studying emotions is one of the most controversial topics in psychology. How would you feel about having your emotions studied? First of all there is much disagreement of emotions amongst modern day psychologists. That disagreement goes way back to the earliest philosophers, so it is nothing new.…

    • 855 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Fear, the Best Influential Motivation” In my opinion, the use of fear is a very influential motivation to use. Nothing more than something that scares me will make me do whatever I need to get done, or in this case change me for the better. In the story, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, the preacher preaches in the sermon basically if you don’t convert to being a godly man/woman you will be sentenced to eternal dam nation which includes burning in a bottomless pit forever.…

    • 682 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Significance of Fear in Lord of the Flies Many of life’s decisions are dictated by emotions. The expansive range of emotions humans feel are an evolutionary tool to help humans make decisions that will help them survive and live a comfortable life. Out of all of the emotions, only one is powerful and compelling enough to cause the “flight or fight” reaction.…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fear is an extremely powerful emotion. It has the potential to entirely consume minds and control bodies, as well as completely dictate an individual’s life. In the 17th century, a countless number of people belonging to various religions feared the supernatural. Specifically, the Puritans firmly believed in and feared God’s wrath, the presence of evil entities and the existence of the Devil. This terror was reflected in the laws and daily life of the Puritan community.…

    • 1259 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book Untie the fear knots of your heart written by Dr.Ken Nicholes is a book that is easy to relate to in my opinon to a lot of people Christian and non-christian believers. The overlying theme so eloquently put in the title is fear. Fear is an emotion that everyone has, fear can help shape us into the people that we are today. Fear can sometimes be a good thing and other times fear can hinder us from our destinies in the book Untie the fear knots of your heart, each one of those senarios are discussed thougout different examples to help the reader relate to what the author is talking about.…

    • 1345 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    People in the world will always have something that they cherish, something that they love, and something they do not want to lose. This statement concludes the weakest people to the strongest people; even a person with the highest power like Barak Obama or the person who owns the production of oil. They all have their darkest fears, and fear something. I am one of many fears. First off, the definition of fear and how fear is ignited should be explained.…

    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist at the University of Cardiff, a stand-up comedian, and a Guardian blogger. In his book, The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What your Head is Really Up To, he argues that our brains are fallible. The book covers several themes, but the most important themes are mind controls, mental health and fear. With respect, to the theme of mind controls Burnett explains that the brain’s control of the body sometimes results in irrational behaviours. For example, the neocortex, the part of the brain that deals with higher functions, is able to overrule basic human instincts that are essential for survival, which can result in extreme dieting and eating disorders.…

    • 1518 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever experienced the powerful attraction of fear? Have you ever wonder why your imagination run wild when you experience something terrifying? Sometimes people react differently to fear as they normally would. Fear is a compelling phenomenon that drives people to react different or even against their own will when they are stimulated by fear. Imagination overcomes reason when the need for something to be true overwhelms the logic of an individual.…

    • 689 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    DBT is anchored in a theory of BPD that prompts clinicians to focus on emotions and emotion regulation in treatment. According to the biosocial theory, BPD is primarily a disorder of emotional dysregulation such that the individuals with BPD have (a) heightened emotional sensitivity, (b) inability to regulate intense emotional responses, and (c) slow return to emotional baseline. In addition to this, Linehan proposed that a biologically vulnerable child transacts with an invalidating rearing environment. Such an environment is characterized by intolerance towards the expression of private emotional experiences and intermittent reinforcement of extreme expressions of emotion. The child does not learn how to understand, label, regulate, or tolerate…

    • 216 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The misattribution of arousal theory is a concept in which people attribute their physiological arousals to the wrong source. It is without question that we have tendency to look for answers to our emotional behaviors. This further confirms that we reevaluate ourselves before attributing our behaviors to a stimulus. It can be very complicated to outline the reasons our bodies act in several situations without having a mental checkpoint for all the possible stimuli. The misattribution arousal theory has been very important in explaining feeling people have in dating.…

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This data revealed this activity of an increased fear response during the fifteen trials, and begins to diminish after the fifteenth trial (Table 3). We can note that spontaneous should be diminished faster than…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What comes to your mind when you hear that someone has PTSD? Are you afraid? Do you fear your life when you are around that person who haves PTSD? PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which develops after a traumatic event. It was originally recorded during World War I when soldiers developed battle fatigue.…

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fear has always been a feeling or instinct which has helped people survive threatening and dangerous situations. humans initially learned to have three sources of fear: germs and diseases, physical threats, and sources of poison (Minnesota M.U). The Amygdala is a gland in the brain that helps detect and create the human fear response. When a threatening stimulus is encountered the Amygdala sends messages that put a person in a state of vigilance and attentiveness.…

    • 928 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays