Fight-or-flight response

WHAT IS IT? Panic Disorders are a variation of anxiety. Panic Disorder involves recurrent and often unexplainable Panic attacks. A Panic attack is a response to a stressful situation, where people may feel like they are losing control of themselves. Exact causes of Panic Disorder are still unclear but some evidence shows that if a family member has a tendency to nervousness you may inherit Panic Disorder from the immediate family member. The difference between Panic Disorder and Anxiety is that…

Within the cognitive level of analysis, it is aimed to study the inner processes of the mind and how it is able to guide behaviour. One of these processes is emotion, which is recognised as the body’s response to a situation, in addition to a feeling that differs from a person’s normal affective state. Firstly, Ekman et al. (1972) identified six fundamental emotions that are expressed across cultures, these included; fear, anger, surprise, sadness, happiness and disgust. So, if these primary…

prognosis, and what that person's response would be? Prognosis is a medical prediction of the future course of a disease and the chances for recovery. This essay will discuss responses from four different angles, including the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural when a person is diagnosed with a poor prognosis. Additionally grief is associated within this assignment as well as the Kubler-Ross’s Stages of Dying theory to demonstrate emotional responses. Grief is also associated…

health and behaviour in our lives. However, our response to stressors determines our ability to control and manage or develop illness out of the stress. “Stress is experienced when a person’s perceived environmental, social, and physical demands exceed their perceived ability to cope, particularly when these demands are seen as endangering the person’s well-being in some way” (Cardwell & Flanagan, 2012). Walter Cannon’s (1932) fight or flight response elaborates the correlation between arousal…

Critical Thinking in Law Enforcement A few days ago we did a lesson that I found very hard to get into. This lesson required putting yourself in someone else’s shoes that didn’t have the same morals that you personally did. I had to put myself in the shoes of someone who is vegan, while I am in favor of eating all sorts of meats. Even though it was a hard lesson it opened my eyes to something important. Critically thinking allows you to see both sides of a conflict to be able to come to one…

“The Night Face Up” I am unsure as to what to comment here as a reader response, but I will instead comment on the questions in section three provided with my interpretations for the sake of this assignment in addition to the questions. The character is described to be critically wounded in his motorcycling accident because he was trying to avoid the woman who frantically ran across the street and wanted to swerve to spare the woman’s life. Eventually, after getting some medical assistance and…

a sound or movement, your brain sends sensory data to the thalamus. The thalamus, not knowing if itś dangerous or not, sends the information to the amygdala. The amygdala receives the information and takes action to protect you, resulting in fight-or-flight. The long process transports the information from the stimulus to the thalamus. The thalamus then takes this information to the sensory cortex, where it is interpreted for meaning and the sensory cortex tries to find possible sources for the…

Stress: A Student’s Strain Back in the times of our distant ancestors, the only real thing to stress about was dying. Nowadays, there are so many things to stress about, though, not as severe as that of death, but enough to cause constant stress. And this constant stress can drive some teens to the breaking point and sometimes, unfortunately, to the point of suicide. While there is good stress, too, being under any sort of stress, for an extended amount of time, is dangerous to one’s…

Responses to Conflict Typically, the approaches I use to respond to conflict include The Exit Response, where I avoid a discussion entirely because I don’t want to get into a confrontation usually due to time constraints, The Loyalty Response, when I care enough about the other person so as to listen and participate in a solution, or The Voice Response, when I have a close commitment to the other person and conflict is necessary for growth and closeness (Wood, 2013). I never consider The…

When people engage in stressful social interactions, they make eye contact, talk and listen in order to calm themselves down. In addition, people can have a 'fight-or-flight' response when they believe they're in danger. The fight-or-flight response is the psychological response that prepares a person to either fight or flee from a threat, attack or harm. This causes their heart to race faster, blood pressure to rise, their muscle to tense and increase in speed and and strength. Once…