You are nervous about your upcoming speech. When the speech was assigned you felt a panic attack coming on. You are prepared, but before you get up to deliver your speech in class your heart starts racing and you are quivering. Although you practiced your posture, you are slumping as you deliver your speech. You are experiencing ..

fight-or-flight response

Explanation:

The fight-or-flight response (also known as hyperarousal) is a physiological reaction that happens in response to a perceived harmful, threat to survival or attack

You are nervous about your upcoming speech. When the speech was assigned you felt a panic attack coming on. You are prepared, but before you get up to deliver your speech in class your heart starts racing and you are quivering. Although you practiced your posture, you are slumping as you deliver your speech. You are experiencing fight-or-flight response.

Explanation:

Fight-or-Flight shows the reactions or responses to stressful situations that prepares the body for maximum performance in any of the options chosen, be it fighting or flighting. The body's reaction to stress activates the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla, these act causing an increase in cardiac output, pupillary dilation, increased heart rate, constriction of blood vessels in the skin, the muscles can also shake, thus inducing a mental state of alert.

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