Human Emotion of Fear; The Psychology of Phobias and The Little Albert Experiment
Zymal Tahir Introduction: One of the most vital emotion that is a part of a human emotion spectrum is fear. At face value, it is an emotion felt by everyone on a day-to-day basis when one see or feel something around that may harm them. Diving deeper into it psychologists tend to define fear as a defensive primitive emotion that triggers a biochemical and emotional response, urging us to keep a distance from the danger around us. At times the fear we feel might become unproportionate to the danger causing it. When experiences of intense fear towards a certain danger, object, or living organism consistently start becoming unproportionate, it is termed as a Phobia . According to an Article by MedicalNewsToday Phobias are defined as “ A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes an individual to experience extreme, irrational fear about a situation, living creature, place, or object.” The purpose of this research paper is to understand the phenomena of phobias in-depth, such a...