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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 want Does anything the person asks them to do –
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 for Clings on to attachment figure
reassurance

Freeze Stops what they are doing and cannot think Refuses to do that task at all – seems absolutely
what to do next stuck
Flop Opts to watch TV instead of going to Stays in room gaming and only leaves to get food
activities