Humans and non-human animals both escape threats in the ways that are beneficial to them. Numerous escape behaviors exists and each behavior is beneficial to different scenarios and people (/animals)
What is it?
Escape response is the response we have to an unknown stimulus such as a noise, or if it is unknown if someone is a predictor or friendly.
How does it relate?
Escape response relates to insanity for it is our natural response to fight, flee or try to fit in (minicry). Where psychology sees these as abnormal human behavior, it is in fact, the opposite. Fight-or-flight and camouflaging have helped keep us alive for thousands of years and although it may not be acceptable through the eyes of psychiatry to flee , fight or mimic others, they are a survival tactic. In the psychiatry field fleeing is seen as avoiding the problem, fighting is seen as a menacing behavior and mincing is seen as dependence, behaviors that are are seen as abnormal to society. Using variations of the escape response is seen as abnormal for it does not fit in with what psychiatry states is a normal response, however, there are numerous escape responses seen in nature.
We escape threats because it has kept us alive in the past, we run from things because that is our escape response to a stimulus we perceive as a threat. Something may not seem like a threat to someone, but it may be a threat to someone else, therefore, they want to escape it in their own safe way. A way that may not benefit someone else, but that certain response may feel safe to someone who is practicing it. Avoiding and fleeing may be right for someone while mincing may benefit someone else, and a different situation may call for different escape response.
When we come across a potential threat, our mind recognizes this fact and prepares to get ready to flee or flight,amount numerous other escape responses. No escape response is wrong as any response to a perceived threat has a purpose depending on the type of threat and what the best action to take is.
Escape response is the response we have to an unknown stimulus such as a noise, or if it is unknown if someone is a predictor or friendly.
How does it relate?
Escape response relates to insanity for it is our natural response to fight, flee or try to fit in (minicry). Where psychology sees these as abnormal human behavior, it is in fact, the opposite. Fight-or-flight and camouflaging have helped keep us alive for thousands of years and although it may not be acceptable through the eyes of psychiatry to flee , fight or mimic others, they are a survival tactic. In the psychiatry field fleeing is seen as avoiding the problem, fighting is seen as a menacing behavior and mincing is seen as dependence, behaviors that are are seen as abnormal to society. Using variations of the escape response is seen as abnormal for it does not fit in with what psychiatry states is a normal response, however, there are numerous escape responses seen in nature.
We escape threats because it has kept us alive in the past, we run from things because that is our escape response to a stimulus we perceive as a threat. Something may not seem like a threat to someone, but it may be a threat to someone else, therefore, they want to escape it in their own safe way. A way that may not benefit someone else, but that certain response may feel safe to someone who is practicing it. Avoiding and fleeing may be right for someone while mincing may benefit someone else, and a different situation may call for different escape response.
When we come across a potential threat, our mind recognizes this fact and prepares to get ready to flee or flight,amount numerous other escape responses. No escape response is wrong as any response to a perceived threat has a purpose depending on the type of threat and what the best action to take is.
References
Wikipedia. (2017, November 22). Escape response. Retrieved December 16, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_response
Science Direct. (n.d.). Escape response. Retrieved December 16, 2017, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/escape-response
Card, G., & Dickinson, M. H. (2008). Visually Mediated Motor Planning in the Escape Response of Drosophila. Current Biology, 18(17), 1300-1307. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.094 rettrieved from http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)01048-8
Schmidt, M. , Philipp, E. and Abele, D. (2008)
Size and age dependent changes of escape response to predator attack in the Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis ,
Marine Biology Research, 4 , pp. 422-450 .
doi:10.1080/17451000802270346 , hdl:10013/epic.31552
Wikipedia. (2017, November 22). Escape response. Retrieved December 16, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_response
Science Direct. (n.d.). Escape response. Retrieved December 16, 2017, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/escape-response
Card, G., & Dickinson, M. H. (2008). Visually Mediated Motor Planning in the Escape Response of Drosophila. Current Biology, 18(17), 1300-1307. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.094 rettrieved from http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)01048-8
Schmidt, M. , Philipp, E. and Abele, D. (2008)
Size and age dependent changes of escape response to predator attack in the Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis ,
Marine Biology Research, 4 , pp. 422-450 .
doi:10.1080/17451000802270346 , hdl:10013/epic.31552