Physiological Sign Definitions
When faced with a life threatening danger it often makes sense to run away or, if that is not possible to fight. This response is an automatic survival mechanism which prepares the body to take actions. All of the body sensations produced are happening for good reasons - to prepare your body to run away or fight-but may be experienced as uncomfortable when you do not know why they are happening.
Stress comes from ____ and _____things.
What are good and bad things?
This is physical activity that is planned, structured and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body used to improve health and maintain fitness. Generally you work up a sweat, breath heavy and increase your heart rate during this activity.
What is exercise?
When this happens our pupils dilate?
What are our eyes?
What are the three things that Junior is tired of at the very beginning of the short film?
What is running, being bothered and depressed?
The muscles in the bladder sometimes relax in response to extreme stress.
What is bladder urgency?
Our ____ perceives a situation to be threatening.
What is the brain?
This coping skills technique can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention. This technique is also a consciousness-changing technique that has been shown to have a wide number of benefits on psychological well-being.
What is meditation?
This organ beats faster & harder.
What is the heart?
Scene from Ransom
What is bladder urgency, what is the freeze response?
The mouth is part of the digestive system. Digestion shuts down during dangerous situations as energy is diverted to the muscles.
What is Dry Mouth?
When our brain perceives a situation to be threatening, our bodies release a sudden rush of ________.
What are horomones?
This is the most common coping skill used by students?
There is no wrong answer here as long as the student answered with a question. (music, dancing, singing, drawing, reading, writing, social media, etc....)
This becomes more tense; trembling can occur.
What are muscles?
When Junior woke up from his nightmare/bad dream, name a physiological sign he experienced?
What is quicker breathing, adrenal glands release adrenaline, palms get sweaty, muscle tense, heart racing, etc.. (lungs, heart, muscles)
Quicker thinking helps us to evaluate danger and make rapid decisions. It can be very difficult to concentrate on anything apart from the danger (or escape routes) when the fight or flight response is active.
What are racing thoughts?
Hiding Out, reluctance/refusal to return to activities is known as __________.
What is flight?
This is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body.
What is yoga?
The flow of this decreases.
What is saliva?
In the beginning of the short film when Junior is running he is holding something in his hand. Tell us what it is?
What is a basketball?
This system is activated by the sudden release of hormones.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
When our brain perceives a situation to be threatening, our bodies release a sudden rush of hormones that send us into an automatic “fight, flight or freeze” instinct. This biological event is called "________".
What is the stress response?
This coping skills technique can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention. It is also a consciousness-changing technique that has been shown to have a wide number of benefits on psychological well-being.
What is meditation?
Our food movement slows down
When Junior went to the park to play basketball what response was his response and how do you know?
What is the flight response? Junior ran home when he saw one of the teens that bullied him sitting in the park.