What is the fight-or-flight response? How is it thought to be related to anxiety and anxiety disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? Anxiety is based on a normal physiological and psychological response to stressful events known as the fight-or-flight response.
? This response is an important emergency response that is very adaptive to threats such as predators.
? If this response is extreme in duration, sensitivity, and/or severity, it can become maladaptive.
You might also like to view...
As soon as an action potential at one point along the axon occurs, there is
a brief reversal of the membrane's electrical charge. Now the inside of the axon is positive relative to the outside of the axon. This reversal of charges is due to the flow of __________ ions into the axon. a. positively charged potassium b. negatively charged potassium c. positively charged sodium d. negatively charged sodium e. both negatively and positively charged sodium
Among methods of studying the brain, __________ measures electricity, whereas
__________ measures magnetism. a. electrolytic lesions; transcranial magnetic stimulation. b. MRI; CT scan c. microelectrodes; magnetoencephalography d. PET; MRI e. CT scan; PET