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Title: FightFlight Response


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Fight-Flight Response
  • Once your body makes the appraisal that something
    is a threat, your fight-flight response kicks in.
  • Presumed evolve from our ancient ancestors for
    survival purposes (to either fight or flight)
  • Triggered by physical stimuli (rattlesnake) or
    psychological situations (speaking in front of an
    audience.

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Sequence of Fight-Flight
  • Appraisal
  • -body senses something as a threat
  • Activates Hypothalamus
  • -Activates ACTH from pituitary gland
  • -Autonomic Nervous System
  • ANS
  • -Sympathetic system activates Fight-Flight
  • Physiological arousal

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Fight-Flight Responses
  • Shuts down digestive system
  • Pupils dilate
  • Hair stands up
  • Muscle Tension
  • Respiration rapid and shallow
  • Heart Rate Increases
  • Liver releases its stores of sugar

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Ohhh, Ive got G.A.S.!
  • General Adaptation Syndrome
  • Bodys reaction to continual activation of
    fight-flightLeads to Psychosomatic symptoms
  • Body goes through 3 stages
  • Alarm
  • Resistance
  • Exhaustion

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Conflict in Stressful Situations
  • Approach-Approach Conflict
  • Choosing between 2 situations w/ good outcomes
  • Going on a date w/ Jessica Alba or Jessica
    Simpson
  • Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
  • Choosing between 2 situations w/ bad outcomes
  • Choosing between doing your Math or Physics
    homework
  • Approach-Avoidance Conflict
  • Single situation that could have both pleasurable
    and disagreeable outcomes
  • asking someone on a date could be good if she
    says yesbad if she says no
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