When Male Rats Are Under Stress, They React with the Fight-Or-Flight

question 31

Multiple Choice

When male rats are under stress, they react with the fight-or-flight response. Female rats, on the other hand, may react with ____.

• A) the might-or-right syndrome
• B) the tend-and-befriend response
• C) flight only
• D) a tendency to hide

Understand the importance of resilience in coping with and recovering from traumatic events.

Understand the role of genetic predispositions in the development of anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD.

Recognize the importance of cognitive processes in interpreting stress and anxiety.

Identify conditioning and learning processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and compulsive behaviors.

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Definitions:

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character and behavioral patterns.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Biological Drives

Innate impulses in living organisms that lead to certain behaviors essential for survival.