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fear CONCEPT
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A state of high negative emotional arousal triggered by an impending threat (real or imaginary) and generally associated with the flight or fight response. Fear is the activation of the brain’s defensive motivational system to promote behaviors that protect the organism from perceived danger. Normal fear involves a pattern of adaptive responses to conditioned or unconditioned threat stimuli (exteroceptive or interoceptive). Fear can involve internal representations and cognitive processing, and can be modulated by a variety of factors.

Alias(es)

acute threat

Definition contributed by Anonymous

Asserted relationships to other concepts

fear
is a kind of
  • negative emotion
    • fear
    is a part of
    No associations
    are a kind of
    fear
  • social phobia
    • are a part of
    fear
    No associations

    Tasks that are asserted to measure fear

    Task Contrast Measure
    Early Childhood Behavioral Questionnaire
    • fear
    PDD Behavior Inventory
    • specific fears
    Child Behavior Checklist
    • post traumatic stress problems
    brief symptom inventory
    • phobia
    adolescent symptom inventory
    • PTSD - Severity Score
    • Specific Phobia - Severity Score
    NPU-threat test
    • P cue–no cue P

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