Flight or Fight Specific Purpose: Inform people about the “Fight or Flight” response and the better understand the way the body responds to certain stress. I. Introduction: Driving your parents home one night you begin to lose control of the car and crash. You’re able to escape the car unharmed‚ but notice one of your parents are stuck inside with the door jammed and the car on fire. Your heart rate begins to rise and you feel this surge of energy flow through your body. You react and rip the
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Which is another name for the fight or flight response? Sympathetic nervous system The "fight or flight response" is our body’s automatic response that prepares the body to "fight or flight" from perceived attack‚ harm or threat to ourselves. This response is something we are born with and has been in our systems for as long as humans have been alive. This "fight or flight" response happens when the internal or external stress activates the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal-cortical system
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To understand the Fight or Flight response it helps to think about the role of emotions in our lives. Many of us would prefer to focus on our logical‚ thinking nature and ignore our sometimes troublesome emotions‚ but emotions have a purpose. Our most basic emotions like fear‚ anger or disgust are vital messengers: they evolved as signals to help us meet our basic needs for self-preservation and safety. It would be dangerous to be indecisive about a threat to our survival so the brain runs information
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as the fight or flight response‚ we are able to better determine the reason behind our bodies and mind reacting to certain situations. Humans either fight against the dangers that comes towards them or they run away from it. Psychologist say that every person has the fight or flight response in them. It is an automatic reaction to certain situations and threats.Whether it is fighting or flighting‚ people would strive to survive no matter what. In the article The Fight or Flight Response it says
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individual’s emotional state. The fight or flight response is one of the most commonly talked about emotional reactions to a dangerous or frightening situation. Fight or flight response works together with the nervous system and the individual’s emotions by producing an emotional and physical response to the situation in the individual. These responses are created through the nervous system and the individual’s own emotions reactions to the fight or flight response being activated. Human emotions
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The fight or flight response is a reaction that is activated in emergency situations. It is an acute stress response that occurs in the presence of something that is terrifying‚ either physically or mentally. During this response there is an increase in heart rate‚ blood pressure and breathing rate. After the threat is gone it takes about 20-60 minutes before the body returns to its pre-arousal state. The fight or flight response can be caused by an instance such as a man being attacked by a grizzly
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The "Fight or Flight" response The flight or fight response‚ also called the "acute stress response" was first described by Walter Cannon in the 1920s as a theory that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system.[4] [5] In response to acute stress‚ acetylcholine is released from preganglionic sympathetic nerves that innervate the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. As a consequence‚ the chromaffin cells secrete the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline)
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situations‚ however‚ the stress can be good for a person. The fight-or-flight response is a type of stress that can be either beneficial or harmful depending on the situation. The fight-or-flight response is important due to how it can benefit a person and how understanding it helps one negate its harmful effects. Fight-or-flight responses happen automatically in face of threats. True to its name‚ it helps prepare the body to either fight or flee the threat. As
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Fight or flight response The fight or flight response is a response to a stimulus that could threaten the survival of an organism. During the fight or flight response the hypothalamus sends signals to the sympathetic nervous system. This causes the body to tense up and become more alert. The hypothalamus also releases CRF which activates the adrenal cortical system. The anterior pituitary gland begins the secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone directly into the bloodstream. When the ACTH reaches
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Choung Professor Boeck RWS 200 February 6‚ 2015 Reading Responses Colombo Pg. 139-140 1. Moore provides evidence to support his contention that America is a nation of idiots by stating‚ “There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth grade level –in other words‚ who are functional illiterates” (Colombo 122) and also explains how he feels as if America wants to keep individuals “stupid” and “ignorant” (Colombo 123). I do agree with his statement that there are many
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