Evaluation of Fight or Flight - The 'Tend and Befriend' Response Flashcards
Who suggested that for female, responses to stress are more characterised by a pattern or tend and befriend that fight or flight?
Taylor et al.
What does tending involve?
Protecting themselves and their young through nurturing behaviours.
What does befriending involve?
Forming protective alliances with other women.
Why may women have a different system for coping with stress?
Because their responses evolved in the context of being the primary caregiver of their children.
What would the flight response do in the context of being the primary caregiver to their children?
Leave their offspring at risk.
What do studies with rats suggest about a physiological response to stress?
That a release of the hormone oxytocin will inhibit the flight response.
What does the hormone oxytocin do?
How?
Inhibit the light response.
By increasing relaxation and reducing fearfullness.
