homework help: what is fight or flight respone? - Help.com

It’s a responce your body has to make in a situation. To fight back, or get away.

For example: if you are getting attacked, do you fight back or try and get away(flight)

Hope this helped.

Thats probally something you’d need to get out the book.

im a nursing major and ive taken 2 years of biology, chemistry and anatomy and physiology, including human growth and development. i’m guessing u are asking the question for homework, and u dont want to find the answer yourself, but whatever.

when the body is in fight or flight mode, it has to adjust itself in order to survive. take for example, hurricane katrina: people went without water, food, clean living conditions and other horrible atrocities for an extended period of time. the body does not have a NATURAL defense mechanism for dealing with something on such a large scale basis, so instead of completely breaking down, it had to make a choice of what to do so the body could still function and sustain. u heard of all the people breaking into stores stealing stupid things like purses and t.v’s and what not? it wasnt because they were petty or stupid, it was because after being exposed to those conditions for so long, the frontal lobe of the brain started to break down. it was the first thing to go. the frontal lobe controls all our HUMAN behavior. being polite, saying please, stopping at a red light. that is all controlled by the frontal lobe, and when the body had taken all it could, fight or flight set in and the frontal lobe started to dissapate so that the other organs wouldnt. it was “expendable” to say.

good answer!! :)

I’m sorry, very sorry to disagree with such a passionate response, but your explanation is incorrect.

What you have described may be true of psychological affects from prolonged stresses (I’m not sure), but it is not the result of fight or flight nor do those things that you’ve explained initiate this response.

The fight or flight response occurs quickly when a human is exposed to extreme stress. It does not wait until the body has been under stresses for long periods of time. Using the above example of Katrina victims, any fight or flight response they experienced would have occurred quickly, as soon as they were in distress. Fight or flight cannot last for long periods of time because it causes the body to exhaust quickly. Those behaviors described earlier are more likely due to the lack of the person’s ability to fight or flee anymore because they used all of their energy reserves fighting early on. And being unable to rebuild their bodies for an additional fight later on.

This is the most concise explanation of what happens to the body during this response:

When the human body is under extreme stress, the hypothalamus prepares the body for fight or flight by kicking into gear and triggering sympathetic impulses to various organs. While doing that, it also stimulates the release of epinephrine, which intensifies all the other sympathetic responses.

How it affects the organs:

Blood glucose concentration increases - energy reserves
Heart rate increases - to distribute oxygen to the body faster
Blood pressure rises - because the heart is pumping blood faster
Breathing rate increases - to get more oxygen into the body
Air passages dialate - to allow more oxygen into the body
Blood Flow is redistributed to the skeletal muscles - to prepare them to fight or flee.

And like I said, while all of this is occurring, the hypothalamus is also triggering the release of epinephrine which helps all of these body changes occur even faster.

its wonderful that u took such an extended period of time out to disagree with me, but it might have helped if u looked at the above question first. this person did not ask what fight or flight was, this person asked the effect of HOMEOSTASIS.

Homeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable, constant condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments, controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms

dumb*ss.

Well, I was actually trying to answer the question asked at the beginning of the post. Which is what your answer was directed to as well.

Quote: “when the body is in fight or flight mode…”

Regarding the second question this person asked, thank you for the formal definition you have provided.

The second question reads, “How does the data show homeostasis at work?”

I’ll go ahead and take this opportunity to answer this one as well since I failed to do so in my previous post.

The data about the fight or flight response actually doesn’t show homeostasis at work. This is a stressful situation and your body is undergoing a hardship. Homeostasis is a balanced condition which is meant to keep your body OUT of stress.

So the only way you could relate homeostasis to the fight or flight response is AFTER this response. Once your brain feels that the stressful situation has subsided, it will send out signals to relax your body and stop the signals that have prepared you for fight.

This is an example of a homeostasis process. Understanding that homeostasis keeps the body in a “normal” condition, it would be this process that returns your body to a relaxed state following a stressful event.

Hope that helps. Reply back if you need any more info or some clarification.

And a side note to rockstarmomma, please refrain from name calling. It doesn’t help answer the question at hand.