Fight or Flight Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 2What commonly happens to digestion during an immediate fight-or-flight response?
  • It may temporarily slow as resources shift elsewhere
  • It permanently stops until the threat is resolved
  • It accelerates because the stomach receives more blood
  • It becomes the body’s main energy priority
• 5Which part of the nervous system most directly drives the rapid bodily changes associated with fight or flight?
  • The enteric nervous system
  • The parasympathetic nervous system
  • The somatic sensory system
  • The sympathetic nervous system
• 9A person facing a frightening situation becomes still and briefly struggles to speak. Which concept best describes this reaction?
  • A deliberate decision to ignore the situation
  • A freeze response within the broader defensive system
  • A parasympathetic digestive reflex only
  • Evidence that no threat response has occurred