Fear Of Cockroaches

Everyone, absolutely everyone in this entire world has some type of fear on something such as fear of heights, snakes, spiders, darkness, and the list goes on. Some studies have shown that the causes of fear of a certain place, thing or emotion are by experience. A person has to interact with the subject in order to have a positive or negative stimulus in its experience and that would be recorded in his mind, in order to know how to interact with it in the future. By the experimenting how fear has an impact on humans, scientists and psychologists can understand how the experience and fear related to each other. Based on John Watson, the response is based on the conditioned stimulus. What it tries to say is that by “experience” a person can …show more content…
Personally, I don’t like them and every time I see them, I think that they would jump on me and bite me. My experience with cockroaches wasn’t classically conditioned, but observational learning. My fear was based on what I saw in my past experience. My behavior towards the cockroaches was based on the behavior my cousin had towards them. When I was younger, I liked to do everything she would do such as watching tv, playing outside, etc. Also, I would imitated her because I thought that if I do what she does I would become popular. One day, we were eating breakfast and suddenly she looked down, and she saw a cockroach walking under the table and she started screaming. As a child who I was, I started screaming without reason too until my aunt came to see what is happening. After the incident, I asked my cousin why she reacted like that and she answered me that one time one cockroach came to her and she thought it would bite her, so from that day on she started to fear them. After that, I thought that it would happen to me too, that’s why I try to get away from them because everytime I see them I think they would do something to …show more content…
However, classical conditioning is not a condition of a everyday life. Yet, scientists still can have proofs by doing experiments with this. However, a behavior or response on something in a daily life can be done by operant conditioning or observational learning. From my experience, my fear towards cockroaches was based on my cousin’s fear towards them (observational learning). Every person is different from each other that’s why their responses towards certains things are different from each