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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