skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Lengua del contenido

| français English
Ayuda para la búsqueda

Concept information

Término preferido

fight-or-flight response  

Definición

  • Definition In 1929, Walter Cannon proposed ways in which the human body and nervous system, and those of other species, evolved to cope with immediate threats to their well-being and safety. These threats elicit strong emotions and prepare the body (e.g., increase in blood pressure, release of sugar for use by muscles) for a vigorous and immediate behavioral response to the threat—that is, either fighting or fleeing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Fight-Or-Flight Response]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-S6RCM59C-5

Descargue este concepto: