“Being Afraid Is All In Your Mind”

It relates to biopsychology because it deals with the brain. For instance, if I were to move into a new neighborhood and someone tells me that the little old lady down the street eats little kids (lets pretend that I am of a considerably younger age), then I would have a fear of this woman before I have even met her; where as if I had met her prior to this statement, I probably would have realized that she is merely a nice woman who has a lot of grandchildren. She has recently published a study in which subjects were shown a random sequence of blue and yellow squares and told that they might receive an electric shock when a blue square was shown. Also this subject is a good example of Theme 3, that psychological processes are complex. of these studies is to help people coping with afflictions such as panic disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder by helping them manage imaginary fears. Magnetic resonance imaging of the amygdala (a section of the brain that processes stimulus in to fear) along with electrodes hooked up to subject’s fingers, revealed that when the subjects were told about the impending threat the amygdala responded to this threat as if it were real. It also involves aspects of psychophysics because it describes an individual’s psychological reaction to certain stimuli. ” I think this article points out an important aspect of this argument, that communication and prior knowledge of certain events can lead to fear rather than one’s actual experience.

This article is related to many areas of psychology.

A New York University neuroscientist named Elizabeth A.

People have argued over whether fear was truly an involuntary reaction, or whether it is purely psychological, or “all in your mind. Phelps has conducted tests on the different ways the brain responds to fear.