An escape involves getting out of a confinement or freeing yourself from something.
Escape is the action of escaping or escaping (getting out of confinement or danger , fleeing, freeing). When it comes to determining the etymological origin of the term, we find that it emanates from Latin: specifically, it comes from the sum of these two parts; ex , which can be translated as “take out” , and cappa , which is synonymous with “cape” .
For example: “The famous scammer completed the most astonishing prison escape in recent times” , “He ran to an alley before realizing he had no escape” , “Luckily we were able to open an escape route before the collapse” .
The escape as a leak or exit
The concept of escape is used to name the leak of gas or a liquid : “A gas leak forced the factory to be evacuated” , “The leak started two hours ago and experts have not yet been able to contain it” , “The man "He did not notice the leak and lit a match, causing the explosion."
The exhaust, also known as the exhaust pipe or exhaust pipe , is the duct that releases the burned gases of an internal combustion engine to the outside. Cars and motorcycles are some of the vehicles that have an exhaust.
It is also interesting to establish the existence of what is known as an escape valve . This, on the one hand, refers to the safety device that exists in certain devices to ensure that the fluid it contains can be released to a certain extent when there is a lot of pressure. On the other hand, that same term is used to define the activity that people use to release tension. A clear example would be sport.
The exhaust pipe is the duct that allows the gases that are burned in an combustion engine to be released to the outside.
The escapism
It is also important to establish that, from the word in question, the term escapism emerged. This is a word that is used to refer to those artists specialized in illusionism who what they do is free themselves from all types of devices that imprison them, such as chains or handcuffs, as well as from spaces where they are locked up, among which they would find cages or buildings, for example.
Throughout history, various illusionism experts have performed a multitude of escapism acts. However, among all of them, the famous Hungarian magician Harry Houdini stands out, who was known precisely as “The King of Handcuffs” for the ability he showed to free himself from those shackles. It also became a benchmark in the sector thanks to its great ease in escaping from straitjackets as well as trunks, coffins or bags of various types.
Escape in psychology
For psychology , escape is a mechanism of instrumental conditioning (the form of learning that presents a reinforcing stimulus contingent on the response emitted by the subject previously). Escape or negative reinforcement involves the termination of an aversive stimulus (unpleasant or harmful to the recipient). This means that the subject gives a response after the appearance of the aversive stimulus to put an end to it.
An example of how escape works as instrumental conditioning can be found in an everyday situation with little connection to psychology: when a person goes outside and feels cold from the wind, they put on a coat. In this way, the aversive stimulus (the cold) disappears thanks to the subject's response (covering up).