...Fear I have many fears. Some are “normal” and some are strange. Some have reasons behind them and some have no reason at all. Now I have the “normal” fears like heights, spiders, snakes, and clowns. I do not know why, but spiders and snakes have always scared me. Maybe it is the spider’s spindly legs or the way the way snakes slither on the ground. Clowns have scared me ever since I was little. I do not recall much but I do remember seeing someone dressed up as a creepy clown. As for heights I do not have a good reason to be afraid of them, they have just always scared me. Although I have my “normal” fears I also have my abnormal fears. Being late to events is one. Whether it is being late to class or a practice. I am always terrified that...
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...some sort of fear. Have you ever wondered when they start, where they go, what is normal, and when you should seek help. In this article we will explore the stages of childhood fear and what side affects are considered normal or not. Children go through a lot of stress and fear even if it is as small as an imaginary monster in their closet. Since you were born you were afraid of something. You may not remember it because you were so young. Infants usually do not have a lot of fears because they don't know what anything is. Most infants go through a physiological response fears, they are mostly afraid of being dropped and falling. So if they feel threatened (like falling) they will be afraid. They also are afraid of loud noises thinking something is going to get to them...
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...Fear and Stereotyping At this particular moment in history we are witnessing the growing hostile attitudes toward Muslims and people of middle eastern descent, and toward those of Hispanic descent. I believe fear is the foundation or root of this hostility. Psychologist believe we use stereotyping to process information about our world on a macro level and this is necessary in order to organize and simplify knowledge. (Murphy Paul, 2015) But, when we allow fear to dictate our decision making process, this necessary tool can become a weapon. Fear is the root of all bias. Fear of the unknown. Fear of change. Fear of the “others”. Every time we make a comment or think in terms of “those people”, every time we use stereotypes as identifiers, we...
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...Fear. The feeling that every sailor feels when their ship is sinking into the deep blue sea. The ship docked on the beautiful day in Pearl harbor. I boarded the ship and went to my small room. I loaded my luggage I needed for a 20-day trip through the pacific. I went opt hear the rules of the sea crusher and as I heard the rules the ship undocked and set out to sea. The next day a storm was spotted. We were warned to turn back by people in the radio, but the captain ignored them and headed towards the storm. Rain started to fall but soon enough it got stronger and stronger until I couldn’t see my hands any more. The winds started to blow but it was no gentle breeze it was like Hurricane Irma was passing right through us. But when the waves...
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...A human has many emotions. Fear is one of the main emotions. It is an instinct of the brain and the nervous system. Fear is meant for self-protection and can be a warning instinct for when the body senses danger. When the body senses danger, it reacts in both mental and physical ways. Fear is usually triggered by something sudden or unexpected. Then come the symptoms; sweating, high blood pressure, and different sensations throughout the body. The reaction from the body is getting prepared to fight or flee from the threat. Other side effects for fear are muscle tension, headaches, nausea, tiredness, fidgeting, trembling, being easily startled, difficulty swallowing, difficulty breathing, running away, forcing on the danger, panicking, (shortness of breath, rapid heart beat,) and fighting to destroy the object of fear, and cold hands. Sweating is the most common way to react to fear, this causing a person’s desire to react to fear is to run. Having a rapid heartbeat is just a person’s heart trying to provide more blood for their body to deal with fear....
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...D, Jamieson K & Aday S 2003, Television News and the Cultivation of Fear of Crime, Journal of Communication Vol 53 no 1, pp 88-104. Topic The theme of this intriguing and thoroughly researched report examines the influence of media consumption on fear of crime, punitive attitudes and perceived police effectiveness. It widely observes the effect that wide reporting and viewing of violent crime has on public knowledge and questions whether the polling data is a reflection of violent crime in America or the television media accounts of it. Context Context refers to the set of surrounding circumstances for any text, piece of research, publication, event etc. Almost every piece of research will have multiple contexts (Study Guide Glossary COM15, 2013, p 94). This journal article portrays the growing insecurities and encroachment that mass media has on our everyday lives, especially its account of violent crime, and how such mediums can impact on the viewer’s account of such events. This journal article has been used and published in a variety of professional and scholarly journals dealing in a range of fields including media and communication, legal and justice studies and behavioural psychology. Structure The paper is in the format of a formal research paper. It is a format that is more objective and non-personal; it’s the methodical process that involves the collection and analysis of information. The paper endeavours to coax the reader into picking a side of an argument introduced...
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...Shana Miller Intro to Literature I-search Paper Choosing a topic for a paper such as this one was really difficult for me. I have always been an avid reader and have always loved so many different authors. There are many questions I have about authors, their works and literature in general. For this paper I choose to write about someone who is a little more modern day; someone who everyone would be familiar with, regardless of whether they are a fan or not. I choose to write about the very famous author, Stephen King. Stephen King has always fascinated me, not only as an author but as a person. This is a man who seems to have an imagination that is never ending, with a soul and mind so dark, is it beyond compare. How else could you write and publish over 60 horror books? All of which are unique, intense, and ultimately terrifying. My question is, who is this person and what is it that inspires this creativity and horror? As a child, I grew up in a household of readers. There was never a time I that I can recall my mother, father, brothers, or myself not having one or more books that each of us were reading. My mother’s favorite author was (and is) Stephen King. There was something that intrigued me about this, though I was not allowed to read most of his works for the longest time; of course my mother was concerned that they would be inappropriate for me to read. This only made the intrigue of the author that much more. Once I was old enough to begin discovering his...
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...Writing a Short Literature Review William Ashton, Ph.D. York College, CUNY A student began a short literature review on the stigma of the mentally ill and perceptions of dangerousness. Working through PsychArticles she found three likely articles. When she read each, she wrote a paragraph description of each: Alexander, L.A., & Link, B.G. (2003). The impact of contact on stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness. Journal of Mental Health, 12, 271-289. Alexander and Link (2003) examined the stigma of mental illness, perceptions of dangerousness and social distance in a telephone survey. They found that, as a participant’s own life contact with mentally ill individuals increased, participants were both less likely to perceive a target mentally ill individual in a vignette as physically dangerous and less likely to desire social distance from the target. This relationship remained after controlling for demographic and confound variables, such as gender, ethnicity, education, income and political conservatism. They also found that any type of contact – with a friend, a spouse, a family member, a work contact, or a contact in a public place – with mentally ill individuals reduced perceptions of dangerousness of the target in the vignette. Corrigan, P. W., Rowan, D., Green, A., Lundin, R., River, P., Uphoff-Wasowski, K., White, K., & Kubiak, M.A. (2002). Challenging two mental illness stigmas: Personality responsibility and dangerousness....
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...report on how to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. Purpose To help individual overcome the fear of Public Speaking by understanding their fear and taking the plunge to get over those fears. We purpose to research and write a background report on the issues involved on overcoming the fear of public speaking. Background of the Problem Public speaking is not a talent that anyone could have. In fact, it is a way of learning skills and could build up by individual’s own will. It could be lot easier if a person enrolls himself in speaking groups, where he will be able to build up his confidence of speaking and also spruce his skills. It could be challenging at first and might sound counter intuitive. But this is the first way to alleviate one’s confidence which plays a major role in terms of speaking. However, involvement in such groups also helps to be socially active, regardless of how intimidated one is and also able to meet new people and learn new things. For some speaking in front of strangers can be completely shadowy because they don’t know the audience and get fear of getting judged for giving an appealing presentation. Despite of the fact, they should be able to take the criticism positively instead of dwelling on criticism which will lead them to success. They should always be passionate about what they do and love the negative feedback. Once they learn how to accept the criticism, they will be able get over with any kinds of fear. These are the things that...
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...Critique of Cashmore, Jordan. 2014. “The ‘Fear of Crime-Media Feedback’ Cycle” Internet Journal of Criminology © 2014 ISSN 2045 6743 (Online) Thesis Reporting on violent crimes in the media is often described as fear mongering. Every day you turn on the local and national news and are bombarded with images of the violent crimes that are taking place in our cities, states and country, this increases the public’s fear of being victimized and creates a sense of impending violence. This article attempts to prove that the reporting on violent crime in the media in regards to levels of violence in our communities is actually beneficial in protecting the public by creating a: ‘Fear of Crime-Media Feedback Model’, whereby the media influences levels of fear in its audience and affects their routine activity, thereby affecting their exposure to potentially victimizing situations by encouraging avoidance behavior; influencing people to remain in their home as opposed to venturing onto the streets. The researcher believes that with further research, the model could be used to reduce the victimization risk to the public by using media reporting to influence the public’s behavior. Methods While the researcher did not conduct his own data gathering research, he did utilize research work that had been done in on this subject to support his thesis. The subject matter of these works include; the introduction of the ‘fear of Crime-Media Feedback model, violent crime and...
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... Research Methods I Kaplan University Helen Farel The disease of addiction may never be fully understood, but further studies in methadone maintenance with opioid dependence will prove that methadone maintenance prevents cravings and withdrawal symptoms and helps an addict to maintain their sobriety while trying to overcome their addiction. In this paper the author will discuss the scientific method and several studies that have been conducted on the use of methadone in the treatment of substance abuse. The scientific method is a set of principles and procedures that researchers use to develop questions, collect data and reach conclusions. (Cherry, 2013). In Psychology the goals of the scientific method is to seek and describe behaviors and explain why the behaviors occur. (Cherry, 2013). Researchers also strive to create research that can be used to predict and change human behavior. (Cherry, 2013). The four steps of the scientific method are, (1) forming a testable hypothesis, (2) devising a study and collecting data, (3) examining the data and reaching conclusions and (4) reporting the findings of the study. (Cherry, 2013). All the research articles discussed in this paper used the empirical research method. This type of research is based on experimentation or actual observation;...
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...Research paper on Anxiety Disorder Jeffrey S. Fletcher, M.A. Kathleen B. Stinger Psychopathology and Counseling, Coun 656 4, May 2014 Author Note Jeffrey S. Fletcher, Student, Liberty University. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Jeffrey S. Fletcher, Jfletcher1@liberty.edu Abstract This research paper is designed to review articles and books of professional journals in anxiety disorders, definition of anxiety disorder, review of current and past treatments of anxiety disorders, the new section and changes to anxiety disorder in the DSM-5, new treatments for anxiety disorders and medications for anxiety disorders. This paper will show spiritual considerations for treating anxiety disorders and how religion can improve one’s condition. It will show how CBT treatment of anxiety disorders have not been very successful and how medication has its limitations in treatment of anxiety disorders. This paper will also show what this clinician has learned and will take forward into the daily practice of treating adolescents with anxiety disorders. Keywords: anxiety, anxiety disorders, DSM-5, treatment Introduction When we talk about anxiety we have to distinguish between healthy anxiety or normal anxiety and anxiety disorders. It is normal to have a certain amount of anxiety for instance when one is in danger it is normal to become anxious. To have an anxiety disorder your anxiety would have to interfere with your life in a negative way. Anxiety...
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...GS1140 Problem Solving Theory Unit 1 Research Paper 1: Paradigm Shift Daniel Yerger Page 1 Robotics Technology The idea of robots came about in 1495 by Leonardo Di Vinci who designed the first humanoid robot. The first computer-controlled robotic arm was designed by George Devol and Joe Engleberger in 1954 this led to the development of the first industrial robot in 1961. In 1977 Star Wars the movie creates the strongest image for the human future with robots like R2D2 and C3PO in the 1960s it inspired a generation of researchers in the robotic technology field. In 1989 a walking robot name Genghis was developed by the mobile robots group at MIT and was known for the way it walks called the Genghis gait. It is predicted by the Japanese Mitsubishi research Institute that each household would on a robot by 2020. Robots are mechanical devices that does some type of work or has a purpose that people would normally do, some robots are totally controlled by an onboard computer system and sensors, and some robots are controlled by people. Cybernetics is also a type of robotic technology device that can replace limbs, some of these devices are controlled by the nerves of the limb that was severed in some way. In 20 years we should be able to replace limbs that will look part of the body and be controlled as if it was the original. Industrial robots are used in it in a vast number of factories the well-known ones are in the auto manufacturing industry. A lot of the products...
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...GENERAL AND THEORETICAL 363 map, tables, chapter references, suggested reading. $2.00 (paper). Reviewed by L. L. LANGNESS University o f California This volume grew out of a series of Staff Seminars on Social Change and Human Behavior held at the National Institute of Mental Health during 1970. The ten papers that comprise the collection are almost uniformally both interesting and worthwhile, but they do not, together, make up a particularly coherent or useful book. Papers by Jerome S. Bruner (“The Uses of Immaturity”) and Sherwood L. Washburn (“Aggressive Behavior and Human Evolution”) have the evolution of behavior as their major theme. Alan Lomax contributed a paper on cultural evolution (“The Evolution of Culture and Expressive Style: A Comparative Approach to Social Change”). Robert J. Lifton’s effort (“Psychological Man in Revolution: The Struggle for Communal Resymbolization”) deals with the “breakdown of certain communal symbols that have sustained human societies up t o now” and the dangers inherent in a mental health model that depends upon the assumption of social stability. In his essay (“Cognitive Control of Perceptual Processes”), Herbert A. Simon deals with recent research on “the magical number seven” which takes him into memory, mental imagery, information-processing, cognition, and emotion. W. Cody Wilson (“The American Experience with Pornography”) describes the problems encountered by the U.S. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography as an example in changing...
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...the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, Predicted a machine programmed to make as many paper clips as possible, he called “the paper-clip maximizer”. He envisions that if this machine ever became incredibly intelligent, it would then decide to create new, more efficient paper-clip-manufacturing machines—until it had converted essentially everything into paper clips! (Bostorm, 2004) A risk described by critics as an exaggerating scenario and is “perhaps impossible”. (Anderson and Leigh,...
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