According to Cannon, the "fight-or-flight response" is:

A) a general response to many different types of stressors.
B) a response to physical stressors, but not other types of stressors such as social or cognitive stressors.
C) an extreme form of the stress response that only occurs in life-threatening emergences.
D) a coping strategy.

Answer: A
Rationale: Walter Cannon noted that the physical responses to stressors were somewhat general, despite the fact that stress can come from a variety of sources that may be biological, cognitive, or social in nature. Cannon described this general reaction as a fight-or-flight response, a set of physiological changes that occur in response to psychological or physical threats.