Brain Awareness Project Review

I decided to do my brain awareness project on phobias. I was interested why people are scared of certian things when they haven't had contact or participated in the fear previously. It was interesting to me that the Text would say that it is a classical conditioned fear if there was no classical stimuli to promote the fear. i decided to see how many people at the fair were actually scared of something without having a prior experience with the object creating the fear. There were some that filled out my survey that did have an experience that created classical conditioned phobia. So it can be classical conditioning if there was a stimulus to cause that to happen. More than half of the surveys were scared of things that they had no reason of why. I understand also that fear can just be an emotional stimulus caused by just having anxiety about a certain phobia. I don't know if I agree with it being genetic, but it does seem in some cases that phobias can be passed from one generation to the other. Kind of weird and does not go along with any of the things we learned in class this semester.