fight, flight, or freeze (remain stationary and hope you are not seen). Many animals display this behavior when they detect a predator. Though I appreciate that 'flight or fight' generally works in explaining the physiological responses.
On a related subject. Due to the known stressors of "big" exams, it may be prudent to not unnecessary stress out people. In other words, methods that test people's knowledge in other ways than exams. There is an argument that exams may not evenly test people's knowledge, but test their ability to handle the stress of exams. Just saying, we should try to mitigate stress in our social environments as it doesn't always bring out the best in our characters. So, how to test people's knowledge of a subject, in a way that they are only demonstrating their own knowledge level ( i.e., not copy/pasting knowledge).
Why fight or flight is a FEAR response, not a STRESS response It is a fact that our voluntarily and involuntary muscles are driven by our emotions, particularly when we are afraid or fearful. This ‘flight or fight’ response, or as it is known today as ‘flight fight freezing system’, or FFFS makes your heart race, your internal organs shut down, and primes your muscles to act to defend yourself, or else run for the hills. On the other hand, the simple tensions that occur when we find it hard to make up our minds activate the postural musculature alone, a simple response that shares little in common with the complex neurological and muscular reactions which comprise fear. In other words, see a spider far away and our postural muscles will move because we think, but see a spider on your nose, and all your muscles and a whole lot more will move because we fear. Do these separate instances correspond to the same neurological causes? Of course not. In both cases, you are avoiding the spider, and yet in each case your physiological responses are distinctively different not only in degree but also in kind. Moreover, in the former case your behavior is driven because you think, and in the latter, it is because you are in fear. The former is due to cortical processes, and the latter is due to more primitive neural processes, centered in the midbrain, that govern the emotion of fear. This is a very simple distinction, verified conceptually as well as empirically (see appendix of linked book for academic sources), but it has not been explained well or has even been entertained in the copious academic and popular estimate of stress. So, our daily stresses and anxieties are distinctive from our fears. They are indeed separate emotions. It is a remarkable fact that we’ve got stress figured out all wrong. Our hard-wired fear responses are responses to threat, not choice, and are governed by different neurological processes from those cortically based processes that underscore anxiety or tension. Secondly, neuromuscular tension due to choice conflict only activates the postural musculature, and the global changes in physiological activity, from a racing heart, hormonal changes, to enhanced alertness, vasodilation, hyperventilation, etc. simply are not characteristic of tension elicited by conflicted thought. Both muscular tension and relaxation are ultimately functions of the relationship rather than content of our choices. From my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below. www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on the neuroscience of motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript. Berridge’s Site sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/ also: On Stress and Rest from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
Not a great presentation and some inaccuracies...the bronchial muscles are dilated to permit an increased volume of air to transit the lungs...this in and of itself does not cause us to breath faster! Also, the Parasympathetic nervous system acts to restore the body to homeostasis after the stressors stimulating the SNS and HPA pathways are removed. These are not small omissions and you need to be more careful with your explanations...Complex pathways can be explained simply but not by omitting details. Ill informed explanations are not acceptable and do lead people to the wrong conclusions. Attention to detail my friend!
Thanks for your comments. These videos are used as homework notes for my classes so they have some understanding before they come to the lesson. We go over it in more detail during the lesson.
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Very informative. Great video.
fight, flight, or freeze (remain stationary and hope you are not seen). Many animals display this behavior when they detect a predator. Though I appreciate that 'flight or fight' generally works in explaining the physiological responses.
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On a related subject. Due to the known stressors of "big" exams, it may be prudent to not unnecessary stress out people. In other words, methods that test people's knowledge in other ways than exams. There is an argument that exams may not evenly test people's knowledge, but test their ability to handle the stress of exams. Just saying, we should try to mitigate stress in our social environments as it doesn't always bring out the best in our characters. So, how to test people's knowledge of a subject, in a way that they are only demonstrating their own knowledge level ( i.e., not copy/pasting knowledge).
Why fight or flight is a FEAR response, not a STRESS response
It is a fact that our voluntarily and involuntary muscles are driven by our emotions, particularly when we are afraid or fearful. This ‘flight or fight’ response, or as it is known today as ‘flight fight freezing system’, or FFFS makes your heart race, your internal organs shut down, and primes your muscles to act to defend yourself, or else run for the hills. On the other hand, the simple tensions that occur when we find it hard to make up our minds activate the postural musculature alone, a simple response that shares little in common with the complex neurological and muscular reactions which comprise fear. In other words, see a spider far away and our postural muscles will move because we think, but see a spider on your nose, and all your muscles and a whole lot more will move because we fear. Do these separate instances correspond to the same neurological causes? Of course not. In both cases, you are avoiding the spider, and yet in each case your physiological responses are distinctively different not only in degree but also in kind.
Moreover, in the former case your behavior is driven because you think, and in the latter, it is because you are in fear. The former is due to cortical processes, and the latter is due to more primitive neural processes, centered in the midbrain, that govern the emotion of fear. This is a very simple distinction, verified conceptually as well as empirically (see appendix of linked book for academic sources), but it has not been explained well or has even been entertained in the copious academic and popular estimate of stress. So, our daily stresses and anxieties are distinctive from our fears. They are indeed separate emotions.
It is a remarkable fact that we’ve got stress figured out all wrong. Our hard-wired fear responses are responses to threat, not choice, and are governed by different neurological processes from those cortically based processes that underscore anxiety or tension. Secondly, neuromuscular tension due to choice conflict only activates the postural musculature, and the global changes in physiological activity, from a racing heart, hormonal changes, to enhanced alertness, vasodilation, hyperventilation, etc. simply are not characteristic of tension elicited by conflicted thought. Both muscular tension and relaxation are ultimately functions of the relationship rather than content of our choices.
From my open source book on the neuroscience of resting states, ‘The Book of Rest’, linked below.
www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
This above book is based on the research of the distinguished neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, a preeminent researcher and authority on the neuroscience of motivation, who was kind to vet the work for accuracy and endorse the finished manuscript.
Berridge’s Site
sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
also:
On Stress and Rest
from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author
www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
Your book is not "open source" in scrib.com, given that it is required to pay a subscription in order to access to it.
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María Eugenia Torres not true. Follow the link and you can download the book for free
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Hey red head
_use a maternal voice_
Not a great presentation and some inaccuracies...the bronchial muscles are dilated to permit an increased volume of air to transit the lungs...this in and of itself does not cause us to breath faster! Also, the Parasympathetic nervous system acts to restore the body to homeostasis after the stressors stimulating the SNS and HPA pathways are removed. These are not small omissions and you need to be more careful with your explanations...Complex pathways can be explained simply but not by omitting details. Ill informed explanations are not acceptable and do lead people to the wrong conclusions. Attention to detail my friend!
Thanks for your comments. These videos are used as homework notes for my classes so they have some understanding before they come to the lesson. We go over it in more detail during the lesson.