When Your Body Responds to a Perceived Threat by Preparing

question 185

Multiple Choice

When your body responds to a perceived threat by preparing you to either attack it or to run away from it, you are engaged in:

• A) the survival instinct.
• B) the rest and digest response.
• C) an evolutionary reflex.
• D) the fight-or-flight response.

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Definitions:

Holding Environment

A supportive space that provides safety and nurturing, facilitating personal growth or psychological healing.

Winnicott

Donald Winnicott was a British paediatrician and psychoanalyst known for his work on the concept of the "good enough" mother and the transitional object in child development.

Psychological-mindedness

The ability of an individual to recognize and understand mental processes, both in themselves and others.

Introjection

A psychological process where an individual unconsciously adopts the ideas or attitudes of others.