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FEAR!(and Negative Emotions)

FEAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLt6bUVoCQ&feature=related

FEAR

What scares you?

Write down a list of your fears

Negative Emotions

Fight or flight response: animals react to threats by either fighting or fleeing

Negative Emotions

Stimulus interrupts the nervous system, can cause

Acceleration of heart

Tunnel vision

Paling of stomach

Inhibition of saliva

Auditory exclusion

Negative Emotions

Phobia: irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, things, or people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCotdOh5WY&feature=related

Negative Emotions

Causes:

Case of conditioning: associate a negative feeling with a neutral stimulus

Evolutionary advantage? Preparedness.

Negative Emotions

Phobias often linked to the amygdala, section of the brain that secretes hormones involved in fear and aggression

Negative Emotions

Psychologists classify three types of phobias

Social Phobia

Specific Phobia

Agoraphobia

Negative Emotions

Common Phobias:

Claustrophobia

Mysophobia

Glossophobia

Negative Emotions

Really?

Ablutophobia: fear of bathing

Coulrophobia: fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)

Phobophobia: Fear of developing a phobia

Halitophobia: Fear of bad breath

Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Fear of 13

Treatment

• How do we treat phobias?

• i) Systematic Desensitization

• ii) Flooding