Fight+vs+Flight

=toc Definition: = A response to stress in which the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine glands prepare the body to fight or flee. Gen Psych Chapter 10 Gen psych pg 326 p44 p43-45

Examples:
In the book "The Hunger Games", different kids from different districts take different approaches at surviving, such as Fight or Flight. The stronger and more trained take the fight concept; while the younger and smaller take the flight.

The fight or flight concept is often used in the context of self defense when explaining what a persons natural reaction to a stressful situation such as one where self defense would be necessary might be.

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Analogies:
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Mnemonics:
F: Fending off I: imminent G: giant H: horrible T: threat or F: fleeing from L: looming I: imminent G: giant H: horrible T: threat

In the News
in this clip this is the beginning of the Hunger Games also known as the blood bath, watch as some tributes run directly to the cornucopia and get weapons to fight while others try to hide and avoid hand and hand combat. media type="youtube" key="dcpn6wZW73c" height="315" width="560"

In this clip the tributes are all lured back to the cornucopia to retrieve backpacks with their districts number on it, the packs hold valuable objects the tributes need badly. The first person we see is a red head named foxface, she takes the approach of flight but running fast, grabbing the bag, and getting out of their unnoticed. Second is Katniss who attempts to try the flight technique, but she is caught off guard by Clove a career tribute who does the fight technique, just as Katniss is going to be killed Thrash a tribute from district eleven runs up and saves Katniss and let's her go using the fight technique on Clove and killing her.

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Here is a clip of a young girl who was put in an extremely stressful situation and ended up using the fight response to repel the threat of an intruder. media type="youtube" key="VPfz7ENFUB0" height="315" width="560" [|Fight Vs. Flight]

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