1. User-Defined Placeholder Text FEAR! (and Negative Emotions)

2. FEAR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLt6bUVo CQ&feature=related

3. FEAR What scares you? Write down a list of your fears

4. Negative Emotions Fight or flight response : animals react to threats by either fighting or fleeing

5. Negative Emotions Stimulus interrupts the nervous system, can cause Acceleration of heart Tunnel vision Paling of stomach Inhibition of saliva Auditory exclusion

6. Negative Emotions Phobia : irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, things, or people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCotdOh 5WY&feature=related

7. Negative Emotions Causes: Case of conditioning: associate a negative feeling with a neutral stimulus Evolutionary advantage? Preparedness.

8. Negative Emotions Phobias often linked to the amygdala, section of the brain that secretes hormones involved in fear and aggression

9. Negative Emotions Psychologists classify three types of phobias Social Phobia Specific Phobia Agoraphobia

10. Negative Emotions Common Phobias: Claustrophobia Mysophobia Glossophobia

11. Negative Emotions Really? Ablutophobia: fear of bathing Coulrophobia: fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns) Phobophobia: Fear of developing a phobia Halitophobia: Fear of bad breath Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Fear of 13

12. Treatment How do we treat phobias? i) Systematic Desensitization ii) Flooding