A Research Study On Phobias

In addition, many people do not mind matrices of flowers and mushrooms. Furthermore, during the experiments the researchers also used happy and sad faces and timed the reactions to those. Throughout history, scientists and researchers have been trying to capture how a person may react too many matrices. How the mind reacts to those fears is as different as the individuals themselves. More often people will react more quickly to things that scare them, as opposed to things that do not.

A common everyday misconception is that phobias have a positive side effect on your personality, while in reality, phobias have a negative effect on you and your personality. For example, arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, causes one to have a change in personality changes, be unreasonable, and cause negative effects on your life. There have been many new discoveries made about phobias, and multiple treatments found, yet many people still find themselves facing an everyday dilemma when it comes to dealing with phobias. Phobias usually pertain no real harm. For example, Arachnophobia (which is the fear of spiders) allows it victims to live in a world full of fear, while in reality even a black widows bite will only cause small noticeables symptoms, such as cramps and nausea in extreme cases.

An example of sexual dimorphism in the Southern Black... ... middle of paper ... ...itude towards spiders is favorable… Although many people, especially in the West, feel a high degree of revulsion towards spiders and may in fact be frightened by them” (Mafham 1984). Living in the west, we have always been exposed to a fear of spiders in Hollywood movies or sudden reactions when someone sees one. The most important reason spiders are beneficial to humans is the control of insects. Spiders are huge predators for insects such as mosquitos, flies, and others; some which can often carry diseases deadly to humans. In addition to disease control, spider venom and silk can be used to benefit society.

(Biology of Spiders, R.Foelix) Covering both the prosoma and the opisthosoma is a waxy covering that enables the spider to be a very efficient water conserver. This is one of the characteristics that spiders evolved to adapt to the harsh conditions of terrestrial life. There are eight eyes located in the head region usually in two rows, varying among families. Spiders that wait for and lunge at its prey will have a row of very large eyes well adapted at detecting the precise distance it is from its prey. Yet those spiders that make webs do ... ... middle of paper ... ...bush and attack their prey.

This was one of the more jarring changes as the Biologist mentions several times how invested she is in studying them as they are not only words but living organisms. I believe this is one of the strongest markers of the thematical differences of these two works. The words in VanderMeer’s novel are what leads our protagonist to her fate. She gets too close and becomes affected by their spores. Again, she is infiltrated by Area X, contaminated, and so begins her journey to becoming more like It and less like her colleagues.

. . as [a] behavioral approach despite the experience of fear" (Norton & Weiss, 2008, p.212), and if courage as a measurable trait can be used to predict behavior. In their study, the authors selected 31 participants and measured their levels of anxiety and fear in relationship to spider phobias. Participants were then exposed to a spider, with the dependant variable being how close they could move their hand to the spider, measured in inches.

Everyone in life has fears, it’s a natural way our brains process certain objects or situations that may be dangerous. Common fears may be heights or spiders; some would rationally go out of their way to avoid these, but this is quite different from having a phobia. A phobia is an irrational distress with a particular object or concept/idea. Although fears are well known now, they do not have to disrupt the lives of those who are living them. Throughout the essay there will be three different treatments with three different phobias in ways to cure a phobia; the first is a trauma-focused treatment approach for travel phobia, assessment and treatment for childhood phobias, and hypnosis in facilitating clinical treatment of injections.

In most people phobias can be instilled by childhood nightmares linked to the object they’re afraid of or because of events attached to these objects Whether it be a phobia of something common, like spiders or something that others may not ever understand, like a phobia of kneecaps.There are an incredibly large amount of phobias that fall into different categories. There are many different levels of fear for people who experience phobias as well this can range from the fear experienced being just an annoyance to the fear being almost disabling for others. Phobias differ very much from person to person but the amount of fear experienced shouldn’t determine who suffers more.

Continuing to follow this cycle allows for negative reinforcement, which then leads to the fear spiders. The cycle of fear and avoidance of spiders produces an unintentional phobia in the subject. People who often suffer from anxiety disorders struggle to complete tasks found in everyday life. The stress that builds inside of them forces the anxiety to become more detrimental to a person's health. Phobias force an unnecessary strain on it suffers mental and physical capabilities.

Just like the ant lion once the Wolf spider has pounced on its prey it then poisons it. “The spider envenoms its prey with fangs, at the same time puncturing the body so it may suck the body fluids out”. (Ross, 2001) In conclusion this essay shows that many species have adapted many feeding strategies in order for them to survive. Invertebrates and vertebrates may have many similarities and difference in terms of their feeding habits but they both have a variety of amazing feeding behaviours. Some chase and hunt down their prey, others save energy by sitting and waiting, some hunt in groups, whilst others work alone, many have learnt new skills & learnt how to use tools, whilst others have even learnt unique ways to trick or trap their prey.