Functional response

“It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.’ ‘Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.”- (Layton) Fear is a chemical reaction that tells our brain and bodies that something is wrong. It is a survival instinct that that keeps us safe and out of danger. But what chemical reactions happen when you are afraid…

conditioning. The cognitive theory is where it focuses on an individual’s thoughts that has established their emotions and behaviors. It’s important to change an individual’s thoughts to change their behavior. According to the theory, irrational responses are the products of subconscious thoughts and erroneous beliefs. Cognitive reframing is used by the psychiatrist to help the client examine their beliefs and develop better ways in assessing a situation. The stop method is used to teach the…

roots. One of the driving forces of some human behavior is something called the “fight or flight response” (also known as the acute stress response). This is the psychology term that describes one of the ways we can react when under stress. Understanding the purpose of the fight…

Discourse/s Gee (1990) defined Discourse as a “socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself…of a socially meaningful group…” (Gee, 1990, p. 143, as cited in McCarthy, 2016). Language Register It is important that children learn what Language Register and take advantage as “Competent oral communication requires being able to use a variety of language registers and being able to choose…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or better known as PTSD is an illness affecting many people in the world, but its most common victims are the veterans of war. One in eight veterans return from war afflicted with PTSD and the number continually rises with war time atrocities becoming worse as new terror organizations form. The things our soldiers see greatly traumatize leaving them scarred for life and give them an incomprehensible fear of it, leading to a difficult life in which they can’t live…

Abstract— Harmonics that are created by non-linear devices connected to the power system. Power system harmonics are multiples integer of the fundamental power system frequency and these harmonic frequencies can create distorted voltages and currents. Distortion of voltages and currents can impact on the power system adversely causing power quality problems. Therefore, approximation of harmonics is of high importance for efficiency of the power system network to maintain the quality limits…

Have you ever been so overwhelmed and frustrated that you didn’t know what to do with yourself? Has your mind ever been all over and you couldn’t focus on what you were doing? Do you panic about the unknown or things out of your control? At least 22.8% of Americans struggle with these qualms on a daily basis (NIMH, n.d.). These are indications of Anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most common disorders in America and has an average age-onset of 11 years old (NIMH, n.d.). There are multiple types…

The majority of people suffering from anxiety and depression go a considerable amount of their lives undiagnosed. What triggers them to seek treatment is often not that they are having mental health problems, but physical health problems that have been brought on by their disorders. If the illness goes undiagnosed for too long it will generate an assortment of complications that can lead to the sufferer being buried under a myriad of medications. This spiraling effect can make the diagnoses feel…

Whenever one is startled, or caught off-guard, the innate human response is to either flee or fight. Most human brains are wired to run from danger. This runs parallel to when humans are faced with a problem or a difficult situation. Many individuals would rather run away from problems than work at resolving them. The novel “Things That Fly” by Douglas Coupland conveys the themes of Escape as well as The Human Condition in his short story by utilizing the symbols of Superman, the narrator’s…