Below are four evaluative statements about the physiological fight-or-flight response to stress. Which statement is TRUE?
It represents a highly adaptive strategy for coping with chronic, modern-day psychological stressors.
It is free from gender bias as early physiological research utilized equal samples of males and females.
It may be an incomplete explanation of the initial behavioral response, because humans and other animals often 'freeze' first to assess danger.
It is mediated solely by the slow-acting hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Fight or flight response with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 11 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.
