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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 14, 2005 11:12:31 GMT -5
I guess that would be like the technique called 'flooding', then? I learned of 2 techniques used to cure phobias in psychology class: systematic desensitization, and flooding. The former is where you gradually desensitize the subject to their fear by first introducing them to the object of their fear in the least threatening situation, and once they overcome that, get closer and closer to more threatening situations til they're finally completely fearless of it. Flooding is where you immediately confront them with the most feared situation, so that once they see that it hasn't harmed them, they'll have no fear of all the less threatening scenarios! Pretty cool. Wow! Psycology sounds interesting! But, then again, the kids wouldn't have their fear in the first place if it wasn't for the monsters going into their rooms...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 14, 2005 14:48:05 GMT -5
WHOA! Back it up there Cool....
Halt....
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Post by pitbulllady on Mar 14, 2005 15:21:10 GMT -5
Kids Boo's age do NOT need a reason to be afraid of something or someone. It just happens. They can be absolutely terrified of somebody or something they have never, ever seen in their entire short lives. Some kids would have been afraid of monsters, no matter what, while others wouldn't have. It would be the ones a bit older than Boo, say, around four or five, who would most likely be afraid of monsters because by then they have heard the word and associate it with something scary. That word would most likely have been meaningless to Boo.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 14, 2005 15:23:07 GMT -5
Take it that EVERY OTHER monster, Boo isn't afraid off....
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Post by Mirage on Mar 14, 2005 15:26:45 GMT -5
Wow! Psycology sounds interesting! But, then again, the kids wouldn't have their fear in the first place if it wasn't for the monsters going into their rooms... It IS fascinating. I'm thinking of majoring in it in college. But anyway, yes...fear can be conditioned, or it can just happen to kids at Boo's age for seemingly no reason, at something they've never encountered before (pitbulllady's point.) That happens all the time.
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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 15, 2005 11:16:26 GMT -5
What I really meant was that a child wouldn't be afraid of a monster if they had never seen a monster. As in, if they never ever saw a monster in their life and didn't even know they existed, they couldn't be afraid of it because...well, they didn't know it existed. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 15, 2005 11:18:55 GMT -5
You run into scary things in your life.
Humans are fearful of the UNKNOWN. Anything they HAVEN'T seen before, they are afraid of no matter what. When a monster removes that fear from the kid by "Flooding" they aren't afraid because they see that it does scare them, but won't hurt them....
So no. Never seeing a monster WON'T help.
Strange......I just......no could it?
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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 15, 2005 12:22:02 GMT -5
Well, let's just say there's thing called a moatyren. I'm not afraid of it because I don't know what it is. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 15, 2005 12:27:05 GMT -5
Yeah. But you also don't know what it looks like.
Even if you do. Do you know what it can do or what it does all together? You can never know EVERYTHING about something... Monsters in the Monster World don't know Randall well, but they already judge him by his appearence.
If you don't have TIME to properly judge something...well... Though the time of scareing, when a child overcomes fear, they are no longer scared of that monster, or nearly anything like it.
Face your fears. Face the unknown. Take if from me.
Behemoths...now that's something to be scared off. Then again I can take it down....^_^
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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 15, 2005 12:28:57 GMT -5
*runs away from Behemoth* AHHH!! ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 15, 2005 12:30:38 GMT -5
Heh heh! ;D Oh....they easy once you grapple their horn ^_^ Think of them as loyal dogs......really....really....really BIG loyal dogs.....
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Post by tailmister on Mar 15, 2005 14:10:31 GMT -5
All of this seems to be reminding me of Buckbeak, the Hippogriff in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabam.
... I liked buckbeak in the movie, very playful.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 15, 2005 14:13:33 GMT -5
Ah Buckbeak.... A Hippogriff as you said. He looks more Griffon anyway. Funny....Giffondor heh heh.
Ah....flying with him....wow....I thought I would fall at first ^_^
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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 16, 2005 11:17:21 GMT -5
I don't like dogs...
And Buckbeak rules. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 16, 2005 15:04:05 GMT -5
True true....Buckbeaks a great flyer.
Head to Warning please.....we have problem...
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