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Fear - Coggle Diagram
Fear
fight-or-flight reaction
work together to decide whether there is a real threat
Prefrontal cortex
Hippocampus
tells how to respond
Brain
sends out messages to the rest of body
some of organs—like your heart, lungs, and adrenal glands—to speed up
faster breathing of your lungs
faster beating of your heart
pupils to dilate so that you can see better.
other parts of body to slow down
digestive organs slow their work
preserve energy
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consider
context
in a haunted house
emotion
feel fear
Fight
engage with the threat
Flight
run
protects people
actions are triggered by fear
you see a snake slithering through the grass
you probably head in the other direction
you near the edge of an elevated surface
you don’t get close enough to fall
body’s reaction to fear
Amygdala
is alerted when you see something that scares you
communicates the fear to other parts of the brain
People like to be scared sometimes
WHY?
your brain will know that the threat isn’t real; you’re not in real danger
with the response of
Hippocampus
Prefrontal cortex