As the halloween season passes I wonder what the emotion fear has done for our progression in evoltion. This weeks post is for extra credit. I would like for you to talk about why fear is there. Looking at one human example and one animal example explain how organisms respond to fear and why you think they might respond like that.
Fear is hated by some but embraced by others. My friend for example can't help but cry and get furious when she is startled, but when I am startled I laugh and enjoy it. When fight of flight occurs your breathe is shortened and senses are heightened. It is this heightened sense that addicts us or repels us to fear. Shadows are scary to people beacuse the darkness is unknown and eerie, but when our senses force us to comprehend what we are actually seeing there is no uncertainty of reality. Whatever terrifying thing we are witnessing is ACTUALLY happening, thus our minds can't block it out or distort it. Animals use this heightened sense as a means for survival and making life or death decisions like whether something is threatening or not. Fear is a sixth sense no one can truly explain, but if it could be explained I doubt that it would save as many lives, or prevent as many accidents.
ReplyDeleteFear is a part of this world because it helps us build strong ethics and morales, and it gives us more heart to do things we might be afraid to do, but its something we need to do.
ReplyDeleteMy little brother shows fear with physical force. One time, I was hiding behind a door, and i scared him through the window of the door, and he yelped and slammed the door in me. It caused my toenail to come off, and its never been the same since.
My dog is very afraid of my dad, because he is somewhat agressive towards it. Every day, when my dad comes home from work, she barks like crazy until he comes in, and when my dad tells her to shut up, she sprints away to the cover of our dining room table.
Preston Jones
Fear, for the most part in humans, is usually a learned behavior. There is only two things that we fear when we enter the world: 1) Fear of falling and/or heights, and 2)Fear of being upside down. We can trace those, however, back to our primate ancestory. When we fall, our arms and legs scramble to cling to something. As natural as it seems to us, most animals don't do that since they don't have "graspers" like us to cling onto something with.
ReplyDeleteEven animals are born with some innate fears themselves. Finches, for example, have been studied and the results have shown that they have an innate fear and anger of the color red. It stated that finches with more of the color red on them, tend to get into fights more, and push others around.
~John Emmett~
I think fear is different for everyone and on different levels.Like when I'm truly scared I freeze. But when I'm like in trouble with my parents I get jumpy and scared. Like sometimes I'll get like super like adrenaline rush. So it varys.
ReplyDeleteLanie Quinowski :)
A Great man once said we have nothing to fear, but fear itself. My interpretation on fear corresponding to evolution is that without that drive of fear we wouldnt be forced to evolve on such a scale that we did. If our ancestors didnt fear the sabre tooth tiger we wouldnt have the weapons and tools to defend against it. We would still have tools but not to the extent that we currently do. So what Im trying to say is that fear drives us as a species to change and evolve becvause as a coagulative whole we do not enjoy fear
ReplyDeleteEric Devall
Fear in my opionion can come into many things in our lives for example, like if your a football player and your team was winning every single game in the season. There's always that fear from the next game, whether the game could turn around and the winning team loses.
ReplyDeleteAnother example is walking, walking into a certain neighborhood there's always a fear of getting robbed or shanked by somebody.
Taylor Minter
Fear is a natural emotion in the lives of both animals and people. Fear represents the irrational response to a percieved threat.
ReplyDeleteWhen you get nervous about a test, its because you havent done the test before, you dont know what to expect. Its the unknown that scares you into this fear.
With animals, going into an unknown territory, such as when you get a new cat, they are very tense and usually hide out until they get to known the people and the places around it. Its the fear of the uknown that causes that response =]
Camden Long
Fear helps us when we have to eather fight or run, it boost us with adrenaline
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion fear is a form of self defense. In the sense that when people or animals get scared they will or at lest some will get a shot of adrenalin and want to fight back or attack what has scared them. For example the video clip that is linked to this blog site. The one kid is scared out of his mind by the other kid in the trash can and the reaction of the kid who is scared is to punch the kid in the trash can. And maybe an animal example would be a rattle snake or any type of snake for that matter. when you as a hman come into its territory or get really close it will try to strike you apposed to a dog or cat that will run away. Fear affects differnt people and animals differently than others. But in my opinion faer is a self defense mechanisim.
ReplyDeleteJake Whisler
i think fear is just how a certain person gets some people aren't afraid to get jumped in an alley but then they are afraid of a bee which is nothing compared to getting jumped. i guess its just how a person feels about certain thigs
ReplyDeleteAlex T
A similarity in examples is screaming, monkeys, like humans, when approached by predators, try and inform somebody outside the predator-prey relationship occuring for help. Fear is a self-defense mechanism that pushes our behavior physically and mentally to another level, and even though a scream signifies help, I believe that we are much more capable of performing things that seem difficult when we are tested by fear, this statement doesn't just involve humans either.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Stork
I believe that fear is a biological factor that is ment to warn us of potential harm and danger. Fear in humans can arise from giving a speech to being chased by a tiger, both scenarios raise our heart beat and dump chemicals such as adrenaline into our systems to help prepare us for the danger in front of us.
ReplyDelete-River
Fear is, in my opinion, a solid part of containing an evolved mamllian brain; from birth it's instilled in us that things have consequences. You hunt: you get food, you fall: you get hurt. Things things are all to familiar, and with every time that something you do comes out with a positive outcome, you always have that fear of having it turn out another way; and visa versa, when something bad is the consequence, there is the fear of something worse..
ReplyDeleteAnd fear can also do funny things, depening on how scared a person is, it will drive them to be more durable, strong, and sustain certain situations with more pizzaz; not because they are meaning to neccessarily, but it's a defense mechanism that kicks in, and your adrenaline does all your thinking for you.
-Cruickshank, Per 4
fear, it think fear is something everybody has. no matter how big you are or how strong you will be scared at least once in your life. fear is something you cant control or fight
ReplyDeletealden
Fear is a natural chemical reaction human bodies have when faced with something that they can't handle in a normal way. It gives us a rush of adrenaline to make it easier for us to react quickly and easily in a dangerous situation.
ReplyDeleteMegan Pittman
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