Critical Thinking: Do Our Fears Always Reflect Reality?
If someone was to walk down a dark alley way and heard people running towards them, it could be said that it would be normal for them to experience fear. For one thing, they won’t know why these people are running towards them, with this being the reason why their body is getting them ready to fight, to run away, or even to freeze. A Big Factor But while this can be seen as a normal way to behave, what would have played a part here was the conclusion that their mind came to. They would have heard something and their mind would have done the rest.