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Fight-Or-Flight : Biological Psychology
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Unconditioned aggressive or ESCAPE responses that an animal displays when it is exposed to an AVERSIVE STIMULUS. Cannon (1871–1945) introduced the phrase ‘fight-orflight response’ in the early 1900s to refer to the physiological...
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The fight-or-flight response, also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response, was first described by Walter Cannon in 1915[1][2]. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming...


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