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    Fear is a primitive human emotion that alerts us to danger. It has both a biochemical response that causes physical reactions like increased heart rate, and an emotional response that is personalized. People acquire fear through their collective unconscious, childhood experiences, social observation, and behavioral conditioning to stimuli. Perception involves both bottom-up processing that analyzes sensory input, and top-down processing guided by experience and expectations. Factors influencing perception include stimulus intensity, the perceiver's characteristics, and Gestalt laws of organization like proximity, closure, continuity, similarity, common fate, and symmetry.

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    Fear is a primitive human emotion that alerts us to danger. It has both a biochemical response that causes physical reactions like increased heart rate, and an emotional response that is personalized. People acquire fear through their collective unconscious, childhood experiences, social observation, and behavioral conditioning to stimuli. Perception involves both bottom-up processing that analyzes sensory input, and top-down processing guided by experience and expectations. Factors influencing perception include stimulus intensity, the perceiver's characteristics, and Gestalt laws of organization like proximity, closure, continuity, similarity, common fate, and symmetry.

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    Fear is a primitive human emotion that alerts us to danger. It has both a biochemical response that causes physical reactions like increased heart rate, and an emotional response that is personalized. People acquire fear through their collective unconscious, childhood experiences, social observation, and behavioral conditioning to stimuli. Perception involves both bottom-up processing that analyzes sensory input, and top-down processing guided by experience and expectations. Factors influencing perception include stimulus intensity, the perceiver's characteristics, and Gestalt laws of organization like proximity, closure, continuity, similarity, common fate, and symmetry.

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    Personality Dynamics: Fear and Perception

    Darla Patricia Halili


    How Do We Acquire Fear?
    Fear and Perception
     Collective Unconscious
    o Jung said that collective unconscious
    Fear
    was made up of a collection of
    Fear is a powerful and primitive human emotion. It
    knowledge and imagery that every
    alerts us to the presence of danger and it was
    person is born with and is shared by
    critical in keeping our ancestors alive.
    all human beings due to ancestral
    Two Responses of Fear experience.
     Childhood Experiences
    I. Biochemical Response
    o It is a displace fear or conflicts
    Fear is a natural emotion and a survival
    during childhood
    mechanism. When we confront a perceived threat,
     Social Cognitive
    our bodies respond in specific ways. Physical
    o Thru observation
    reactions to fear include sweating, increased heart
     Behavioral
    rate, and high adrenaline levels that make us
    o The fear were trigger by stimulus
    extremely alert.

    II. Emotional Response


    The emotional response to fear is highly personalized.
    Because fear involves some of the same chemical
    responses in our brains that positive emotions like
    happiness and excitement do, feeling fear under certain
    circumstances can be seen as fun, like when you watch
    scary movies. Some people are adrenaline junkies,
    thriving on extreme sports and other fear-inducing thrill
    situations. Others have a negative reaction to the
    feeling of fear, avoiding fear-inducing situations at all
    costs. Although the physical reaction is the same, fear
    may be perceived as either positive or negative,
    depending on the person.
    Personality Dynamics: Fear and Perception
    Darla Patricia Halili
    2. Closure
    a. This results in an effect of filling in
    Perception
    missing information or organizing
    • The process by which sensory information is
    information which is present to make a
    actively organized and interpreted by the brain
    whole
    • The process of selecting, organizing and
    3. Continuity
    interpreting raw sensory data into useful
    a. The principle of continuity predicts the
    mental representation of the world.
    preference for continuous figures.
    4. Similarity
    Two Perception Process
    a. The principle of similarity states that
    1. Bottom Up Processing
    things which share visual characteristics
    • Analysis begins with the sensory receptors and
    such as shape, size, color, texture, value
    works up to the brain’s integration of
    or orientation will be seen as belonging
    information
    together.
    2. Top Down Processing 5. Common Fate
     Information Processing guided by higher level a. The Gestalt law of common fate states
    mental processes, as when we construct that humans perceive visual elements
    perceptions drawing on our experiences and that move in the same speed and/or
    expectations direction as parts of a single stimulus. A
    common example of this is a flock of
    Factors that Influence Perception birds. When several birds fly in the
    same direction, we normally assume
    1. The Nature of the stimulus being perceived
    that they belong to a single group. Birds
    o Intensity
    that fly in a different direction do not
    2. The one perceiving
    appear to be included in the said group.
    o Internal Characteristics (Beliefs,
    A marching band is another example
    Attitude, Interest, Past Experiences,
    that usually exhibits the gestalt law of
    Culture and Motive)
    common fate
    6. Symmetry
    GESTALT LAW OF ORGANIZATION
    a. Symmetrical elements are perceived as

    1. Proximity part of the same group.

    a. The principle of proximity states that


    things which are closer together will be
    seen as belonging together.

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