L5 - Fight or Flight Response

Question 1

Role of amygdala

Answer 1

Senses fear from threat and sends a distress signal to the hypothalamus

Question 2

Name of pathway involved

Answer 2

Sympathomedullary pathway

Question 3

Which NS is triggered by the hypothalamus

Answer 3

Sympathetic Nervous System

Question 4

SNS sends a signal to the

Answer 4

Adrenal medulla

Question 5

Adrenaline increases what to do with the heart and lungs

Answer 5

Heart/breathing rate, rate of blood flow, blood supply to heart and brain, sweating

Question 6

Adrenaline also results in what to do with the blood

Answer 6

Vasoconstriction

Diverting blood away from skin, kidneys, and digestion systems

Question 7

Adrenaline’s effects prepares for?

Answer 7

For action as muscles are provided with more energy for physical action

Question 8

Adrenaline helps with decision making how?

Answer 8

Brain has more resources for rapid response planning

Question 9

What happens after a threat has passed?

Answer 9

Parasympathetic nervous system reduces effects of stress response

Question 10

PNS effects include

Answer 10

Slowing down heart and breathing rate

Restarting digestion

Question 11

+ of this response

Answer 11

Makes sense from evolutionary psychology point of view

Will have increased survival by fighting or fleeing from a threat

Question 12

• related to other action

Answer 12

May freeze
Stop, look, listen, being hyper-vigilant
Help determine what to do next, become less noticeable to the threat

Question 13

• related to female response

Answer 13

Tend and befriend
Have oxytocin
More likely to stay and protect offspring