Fear Factor

when Cannon and Bard concluded that psychological changes occur too slowly to incur an emotional reaction. These two psychologists, and their theory would say that a person hearing footsteps in the night would simultaneously trigger the emotion of fear, and the physical reaction of…

recurrent unexpected panic attacks or at least one attack followed by a period of fear about additional panic attacks. Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense anxiety that may not be appropriate for the amount of potential danger in a situation. They are common with up to 40 percent of the population experiencing one at some time in their life. It is when these panic attacks are recurrent, there is a long period of fear of an additional panic attack afterwards or the individual avoids doing…

alcohol to cope or maintain their social or anxiety disorders. Book and Randall demonstrate that “Clinical reports that people use alcohol as a means of coping with social fears as well as with stress” (3). Researchers state that people use or abuse alcohol as a means of coping with social fears. People use alcohol to reduce social fears when in social activities or events. Book and Randall states, “Tension reduction hypothesis implies that alcohol acts as a negative reinforce to reduce stress…

Specific purpose: To inform my audience that phobias are wide ranging, different from fears, and there are specific methods of treatment to treat them. Central Idea: Phobias are an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the individual has a relentless dread of a situation, living creature, place or thing. They are categorized into 3 main types: specific, social and agoraphobia. They differ from fears as they cause some level of impairment, and medications and psychotherapy are 2…

lasted for more than six months. Fourth, Phobias Disorder is an excessive and irrational fear reaction, “In the United States, approximately 19 million people have phobias, affects 6 million adults, or 2.7% of the U.S. population. Women are twice as likely to be affected as men.” ( J. Legg 2017). If you have a phobia, you may experience a deep sense of dread or panic when you encounter the source of your fear. The fear can be of a certain place, situation, or object. The impact of a phobia can…

some non-phobic individuals do not report fear acquisition after having a traumatic experience (e.g., Poulton & Menzies, 2002). Using the diathesis-stress model, some, if not all, of the differences can be understood. There seems to be a genetic vulnerability that contributes to the fear conditioning. This seems to be mediated by traits such as the neuroticism trait that increases the levels of anxiety further affecting the acquisition and resilience of the fear conditioning (Hettema, & Annas,…

or starting college classes, anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. In college, students may be juggling multiple classes at a time and have an extensive amount of homework, while also trying to manage their personal and social lives, which are factors contributing to normal anxiety experienced by students in a college setting. What if that anxiety becomes more excessive and leads to problems in social situations? For students, social anxiety can be crippling and especially difficult to deal…

level of stage fright. Some have a mild stage fright, while others are overwhelmed with anxiety. In general, stage fright is, according to the textbook Criminal Investigation: Basic Perspectives by Charles Lushbaugh and Paul Weston (2012), a nebulous fear, often based on no more than a reluctance to get up and talk in front of a group of people. A person feels scared or anxious to become the central focus in this condition. Not to mention, a witness may be worried they are the deciding figure of…

of an Irish person is one of fear and mistrust. They are also, “intensely familistic and tightly endogamous”. Schizophrenia is also very common. They especially do not trust outsiders and are very influenced by their past, holy geography, and their language which they regard as sacred tongue. According to the author, these main type of personality traits arise from the decline in culture of rural Irish people and their culture. Tales in the Irish culture reflect the fear many of the Irish people…

For this reason, many scientists have argued changing social phobia to social anxiety disorder. Social phobia is the “…fear [of] being humiliated, embarrassed, or judged negatively in social situations” (Gallo et al). In order to cope with these feelings, many patients avoid situations which provoke these intense feelings of fear or anxiety. Examples of situations include activities such as “…speaking, performing, eating, drinking, or writing...” in front of a large or small…