Analyzing The Article ' Detecting The Snake '

Watching frightening films such as “It,” Stephen King’s masterpiece, which is engrossing its monumental audience, is a favorite pastime of many young people. This industry is vast and creates a large amount of wealth for many of the people behind it. However, parents should diligently research these films’ psychological effects on minors before allowing their children to engage in this form of entertainment. After all, “‘Given that very young children may not yet know what types of stimuli frighten them most, nor do they enjoy the power to choose which media the family will view, they are in special need of protection from exposure to such scary stimuli before coping strategies are necessary’” (“Scary”). This shows that parents must carefully consider the content they allow their children to see. People watch horror movies for myriad reasons, as shown in Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” and watching these films have both positive and negative effects that parents should be aware of, which are displayed in Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” and in the USA Today article “Scary Movies and TV Programs Have Long-Lasting Effects.”

In human nature there exists a morbid desire to explore the darker realms of life. As sensitive beings we make every effort to deny our curiosity in the things that frighten us, and will calmly reassure our children that there aren't any creatures under their beds each night, but deep down we secretly thrive on that cool rush of fear. Despite our efforts to maintain a balance of respectable emotions, we are a society of people who slow down to look at traffic accidents and find excitement in the macabre. We turn off the lights when watching scary movies, and when it's time to go to bed, we secretly make sure the closet doors are shut. Fear keeps our hearts pumping and endorphins rushing, for it is an emotion that reminds us of our

Fear is an existing emotion that begins in childhood and progresses into adulthood. Children ages zero to two fear separation of parents, loud noises, and strangers while three to six year olds fear imaginary beings such as ghost and monsters (Smith). It is understandable that fear progresses in one’s lifetime, morphing from childish fears into more real-like scenarios. Propaganda, especially during wartime, appealed more to the fears of adults, as artists were targeting that

Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov had done experiments on dogs showing the conditioning process, but Watson was interested in taking Pavlov’s research to the next level and show that emotional reactions can be classically conditioned in people (Cherry, 2016). They used a nine-month-old baby boy and exposed him to a series of stimuli including a white rat, a rabbit, a monkey, masks and burning newspapers and watched the boys reaction, initially he showed no fear of the objects he was shown (Cherry, 2016). He then decided that he

One way authors plant fear in your brain is by transforming something we already know and love into something frightening. One example of this is in the short story “Windigo” by Louise Erdrich. Over the course of the story, the windigo takes an innocent little kid and turns them into a monster. The author introduces an inculpable child, even calling them “little one”. She then takes the kid and transforms them into a monster, a windigo. Following that, she even goes so far as to bring the child home. Home. As a monster. To haunt her own village. It says, “...I carried you home,” and that is when the fear she planted at the beginning really starts to take root. This transformation is a great illustration of an author transforming something you know and love, in

The infants tended to look more at the “mean” man and crawl to the “nice” man. A similar video was shown illustrating a helpful and hurtful shapes. After the square hurt the circle, the circle then chose to be with the square instead of the helpful triangle. There is an assumption made by Saxe and psychologists in this data that the infants are looking at the mean man and shape to understand why they acted the way they did, that the hurtful actions confused these children and so they were intrigued by the actions, perhaps because it is not how the infants would have acted. The results conclude that by the age of one, children can identify helpful and hurtful actions.

“The Gift Of Fear,” a psychology book written by Gavin De Becker, is an extremely useful and informative read. It gives valuable advice about how to act upon human intuition, how to recognize threats, and defines what real fear is and it’s purpose. I found the book to be extremely interesting. This book provided me with a sense of understanding on violence and fear and I feel much better prepared when it comes to recognizing dangerous situations.

In both articles, infants’ gazes are crucial to the experiments conducted. Whether reacting to disappearing objects in Baillargeon's article or identifying with someone of the same skin color as said in Spelke and Kinzler’s article.

The purpose of this paper is to use the habituation technique in young infants to evaluate one hypothesis derived from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. I will compare 5-months olds in a task that involves possible and impossible outcomes. Piaget’s theory specifies the cognitive competencies of children of this age. 1a. During the first few months of life to the age of two, children are developing senses and motor movements that allow them to experience the world. The more the child interacts with any aspect of their environment, the more the child gains an emotional understanding of the world. 1b. Object permanence is a skill that a child developed over time that allows the child to realize that an object or a living thing still exists even while unseen or unheard. Piaget explains the absence of object permanence by talking about the six substages of the development of object permanence. Through the six substages, Piaget talks about how an infant’s initial thought to look for a hidden toy would be the last place the toy was seen. In this case, the child has not yet fully developed object permanence. Object permanence begins to emerge at the age of two for an average child. It emerges because over the past 24 months or so, children develop their sensorimotor stage over trial and error. 1c. Stranger anxiety is when a child

There are two components for fear, they are biochemical response and emotional reaction. Even when we prepare ourselves for what is coming, there are still moments when we can hear our heart beating out of our chest, we start to sweat, and feel the adrenaline pumping through our bodies. Biochemical fear, which is an automatic response is likely to be an evolutionary trait. Say you hear the leaves crackling against the cool Fall pavement and the hiss of something unknown in the darkness. This image creates a fight or flight response within and we have to make a choice quickly to stay or to go. While biochemical responses to fear are universal, emotional reactions to fear more individualized and physical. Emotional fear has little place when discussing the Boogeyman because children do not go out looking for their monster in the night. Their fear is rational to them and leads to stress when they think they are dealing with this creature of the night. (MacDonald). Just read this child’s rhyme about the Boogeyman if you need to see the effects this fear

The article, Consider the Lobster, was very interesting. It started out kind of bland but I learned a lot about cooking lobsters and the annual Lobster Festival that takes place in Maine. I think that by writing this article the author was not only wanting to advertise the annual Main Lobster Festival, but he also wanted to inform his readers on different ways that lobsters are cooked. He wanted to discuss his opinion on boiling lobsters alive. He believed that it may sound inhumane, but then he provided background information to show why he believes it is not.

In «The Rattler» the author uses such techniques as a wide range of vocabulary and imagery to provide his point of view and achieve his purpose. He sets up a well-organized story that presses on audience's feelings of contrition and sadness to understand the situation from the main hero's viewpoint.

Sam and Eric describe the “beast” as furry with wings behind its head. It apparently moved, too. The “beast” was also described to have eyes, teeth, and claws. Human psychology is basically, in other words, a human’s thought process. Children often tend to get frightened very easily. Sam and Eric are children as well, and with

In “The Sandman” published in Grammar is a Destination, 4th Edition on April 2016, author Bonnie Ronson details the story of a young boy frightened by his older cousin and describes the effects it still has on him as an adult. As children, we constantly learn new things and our minds are blank canvases where anything is possible. Children are very incorrigible and easily scared; therefore, I believe it’s not okay to frighten children.

Emotional fear within oneself is a common foundation that dictates the “reaction” in relation to certain situations, such as the presence of a snake. In D.H. Lawrence’s “Snake”, the emotions of fascination and intense hospitality, although dysfunctional, heavily takes precedence over fear. The two factors of morality or “education” also plays a key role in Lawrence’s internal conflict.This is clearly presented in the text by the description of the author’s initial reaction to the encounter of the snake. Rather than running away in terror or forcing it to flee, D.H. Lawrence “like a second-comer” waited. Not only did he wait, he observed the undulating snake with a deeply consuming curiosity; essentially in hopes to discover an idiosyncratic trait that would reassure himself that this was no ordinary snake. However this did not stop Lawrence’s conscious to pursue mental control, explaining how “voices in me said, if you were a man/ You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off”. The quote refers to the way the “traditional reaction” would have affected his actions and also how his education often attempts to strike fear away. “If you were not afraid you would kill him”. Lawrence further endeavored away from the “traditional reaction” by feeling “honoured still more/ That he should seek my hospitality”.