ABSTRACT
The relaxation that occurred in the safe compartment appeared to move forward in the sequence of responses, as if the fear reduction had become conditioned to the succession of immediately preceding cues, including proprioceptive cues from anticipatory avoidance responses. From the foregoing model, it is apparent that, depending on the environmental circumstances that allow escape from fear-inducing stimuli, the subject can be motivated by fear to learn any one of a considerable variety of responses. While the causal factors in complex clinical situations are hard to prove, animal models provide clear evidence for a number of different adverse consequences on the physical health of the body due to purely psychological “stress”. Perhaps the situation will be one that requires the radically different approach of dividing up the phenomena of fear and other motivations in completely new ways.
