According to Cannon, the "Fight-Or-Flight Response" Is

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Multiple Choice

According to Cannon, the "fight-or-flight response" is:

• A) a general response to many different types of stressors.
• B) a response to physical stressors, but not other types of stressors such as social or cognitive stressors.
• C) an extreme form of the stress response that only occurs in life-threatening emergences.
• D) a coping strategy.

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Definitions:

Ego

In psychology, a component of Sigmund Freud's model of the psyche that represents the self, or the part of one's identity that mediates between the desires of the id and the constraints of the social environment.

Id

A part of the mind in Freudian psychoanalysis that is responsible for instinctual desires and drives.

Libido

The energy of the sexual drive as a component of the life instinct.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that acts as a moral center, enforcing ethical conduct and societal norms.