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Unit 8: Signs of Stress Answers





      6. Stress responses:

           Mobilizing: fight, flight, fawn, flock, find


           Immobilizing: freeze, flop

           See slides in presentations to check descriptions.



      7. Tiny and huge examples of stress responses:




        STRESS RESPONSE SMALL                                                                    HUGE


        Fight                                   Pulls a face                                     Punches

        Flight                                  Looks away                                       Runs away


        Fawn                                    Agrees to play a game they don’t really          Does anything the person asks them to do –
                                                want to do                                       whether it is ok for them or not.

        Flock                                   Giggles with others at a time it is not          Criminal gang behaviour
                                                appropriate

        Find                                    Keeps looking back at attachment figure          Clings on to attachment figure
                                                for reassurance

        Freeze                                  Stops what they are doing and cannot             Refuses to do that task at all – seems
                                                think what to do next                            absolutely stuck

        Flop                                    Opts to watch TV instead of going to             Stays in room gaming and only leaves to get
                                                activities                                       food
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