Psychological Needs Flashcards
Week 5
Fear
A persons interpretation that the situation is dangerous or threatening ones wellbeing. A person can feared by what can cause physical or psychological harm.
Why can the fear emotion do to protect humans
The fear emotion can motivate individuals to protect themself from physiological or psychological harm and that can be in the form of either freezing or fleeing.
It can also help in finding new ways to cope in the danger in order to remove the danger. Such as learning to pay attention on the road when its raining because it is slippery.
Fear vs. Anxiety
Fear is when a person can identify the source of threat or danger. Anxiety makes more harder to identify the source of the threat.
Fear can motivate a specific style of coping, while anxiety is a state of undirected arousal and tension and keeps one alert instead of away from the threat.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
It arises from experiences of extreme danger that elicit intense fear and has short-term fear consequences and long-term trauma consequences.
What causes the fear is the trauma but the person will feel the stress and anxiety symptoms because they never now when they will relive those experiences (in their vivid flashbacks).
What are the 4 categories of phobias?
- Interpersonal events and social situations: rejection/ criticism/ interpersonal conflict.
- injuries and surgical procedures: death/ blood…etc
- Animals: domestic animals but mostly crawly animals.
- agoraphobic fears: being lost in a crowd/ tight spaces/ being alone…etc
What is ANger
Anger rises from the interference of pursuing a goal. Angers function is to prepare for these obstacles.
What is disgust?
It’s the oldest emotion and its main objective was to prevent the oral incorporation of offending substance.
It helped humans survive in old ages because due to it they rejected anything that looked or smelled spoiled.
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