Fear

Paper Summary:

This paper indicates that an infant's fears are most likely reactions to real and immediate events while a preschoolers' fears many times stem from his or her imagination. The author points out that humans have a built-in mechanism, which is triggered by fear, called the flight or fight reaction that acts as a survival mechanism and saves people from many potential dangerous or violent situations. The paper relates that fear continues throughout the life-span in various forms and, many times, it prevents people from living their lives to the fullest potential because people allow their fears to get in the way and cripple them from going any farther.

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"When a person's phobia are too intense and he cannot just stay away from the object or setting that produces the fear or phobia he sometimes seeks professional help. It is interesting that when they use behavior modification in treating phobias that they use a method where the person is repeatedly exposed to the feared situation or object so that they can see that no harm befalls them; the fear gradually fades. It seems that even in the case of extreme fear that the answer is to face that fear and it eventually dissipates."

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