Sentence examples for phasic fear from inspiring English sources
Using a design of phasic fear (predictable threat), sustained anxiety (unpredictable threat) and safety (no threat), we investigated the magnetoencephalographic correlates and temporal dynamics of emotional face processing in a sample of phobic patients.
After several pairings the neutral cue evokes a phasic fear response and the context evokes a sustained anxiety response (Marks, 1987).
Fear is a phasic, apprehensive arousal to an explicit threat of an aversive stimulus dissociable from a long-term state of anxiety [1].
Fear is characterized by phasic responses to explicit and often conditioned cues, and is associated with imminent or present danger; whereas anxiety is associated with potential danger and is characterized by tonic responses to situations of uncertainty or conflict (Davis & Shi, 1999; Gray & McNaughton, 2000; Bannerman et al., 2004).
Surging or "phasic" dopamine is more associated with reward motivation than "tonic" or background dopamine levels.
