Fight or Flight

    Cards (10)

    • Amygdala?

      danger stimulates the amygdala which inputs sensory info and assigns emotions to them
    • Increased heart rate?
      more blood pumped around the body and to the muscles
    • increased breath rate?
      more oxygen to muscles
    • increases sweat?
      regulates temperature
    • pupil dilation?

      take in more light/ able to see the situation better
    • Stop unnecessary functions?
      salivation, urination and digestion: save energy for more essential fuctions
    • Evaluation?
      Taylor et al (2000) tend and befriend woman. stay to protect their young
    • Evaluations?
      Gray (1988) humans freeze. during frozen state assess the situation
    • Evaluations?
      Androcentric: most of the early research was done on men (bets bias)
    • temporal validity?
      most of stressor of the modern day do not require intense reactions. modern day stressor may repeatedly set off stressors which can damage health. increased b.p --> CHD. (maladaptive)
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