When people are exposed to danger, survival-ensuring psychobiological processes take precedence over other brain and body systems. The fight-flight-freeze response is an example of one system taking control from other systems. Attachment theory, and the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM) in particular, describes how exposure to danger in childhood helps shape neural function, and the resultant patterns of information processing (PIP). There are two primary PIP’s, one is cognitively oriented and one is affectively oriented. Danger is more complex than meets the eye. There are universal dangers that threaten all humans, but there are unique dangers that are relevant to the cognitive and affective orientations. Danger is also age-salient, and some dangers are more or less relevant depending on age. The DMM Danger List is available here.
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