Fear Induced Emotion

Fear Induced Emotion on Motivation
University of Texas at Arlington

Anxiety is a psychological, physiological, and behavior state in humans and animals by a threat to well-being or survival, either potential or actual. Each of us has felt afraid, and we can all recognize fear in many animal species. The function state of fear is defined in terms of being caused by a particular pattern of adaptive behavior to avoid or cope with that threat. We have all been in a situation where we are in fear for our lives and we feel like we would go whatever and say whatever to get us out of this situation. Some psychological theories propose that fear is a biologically basic emotion of all humans and many other animals. Psychologist
Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals that cause a racing hear, fast breathing and energized muscles, also known as the fight or flight response. There are many things that could trigger this stimulus such as a spider, a knife at your throat, and auditorium full of people waiting for you to speak. The fear response is almost autonomic; we don’t consciously trigger it or even know what’s going on until it has run its course. Because cells in the brain are constantly transferring information and triggering response there are many areas of the brain that involve fear. Researchers have discovered that certain parts of the brain play central roles in the process, such as they thalamus which decides where to send incoming sensory data from eyes, ears, mouth, or skin, the sensory cortex which interprets sensory data, the hippocampus which sores and retrieves conscious memories; processes sets of stimuli to establish context, the amygdala which decodes emotions, determines possible threat, stores fear memories, and the hypothalamus, which activates the fight or flight response.
I believe that when a person’s family is in jeopardy they will do whatever to protect them even things that wouldn’t do for a million dollars. When your job is to protect your family you have a responsibility to do whatever it takes to take care of them even if it is illegal. When people fear for their lives they tend to do things that they normally usually wouldn’t because they believe that they are protect the people they are supposed to protect. I believe that when people have a family to take on so much responsibility that they don’t even know it and because of the emotional attachment they overlook right and wrong and do whatever is necessary. If someone was to call you and tell you that they kidnapped your family and they only way to release them is if you did something illegal I believe ten out of ten times the person will do that illegal job to protect his/her family from any other form of danger. Some people would call these people criminal but other might call them hero but at the end of the day fear is an emotion that changes how you will respond in a situation completely. Fear is probably one of the most effect tactics that people use to control or manipulate people and as