Editing Fight-or-flight response (section)

==Name==
Originally understood as the "fight-or-flight" response in Cannon's research,<ref name="Walter Bradford Cannon 1915 211"/> the state of hyperarousal results in several responses beyond fighting or fleeing. This has led people to calling it the "fight, flight, freeze" response, "fight-flight-freeze-fawn"<ref name="fawn" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=It’s Not Just ‘Fight or Flight’—Other Ways Your Body Responds To Stress |url=https://www.health.com/fight-flight-freeze-fawn-8348342 |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=Health |language=en}}</ref> or "fight-flight-faint-or-freeze", among other variants.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Donahue |first1=J.J. |chapter=Fight-Flight-Freeze System |editor1-last=Zeigler-Hill |editor1-first=V. |editor2-last=Shackelford |editor2-first=T.K. |title=Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |date=2020 |pages=1590–1595 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_751 |isbn=978-3-319-24610-9 |s2cid=240856695 }}</ref> 

The wider array of responses, such as [[Freezing behavior|freezing]], flop, faint, flee and fright,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bracha |first1=H. Stefan |title=Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum |journal=CNS Spectrums |date=September 2004 |volume=9 |issue=9 |pages=679–685 |doi=10.1017/S1092852900001954 |pmid=15337864 |s2cid=8430710 |url=http://cogprints.org/5014/1/2004_C.N.S_Five_Fs_of_FEAR--Freeze_Flight_Fight_Fright_Faint.pdf?q=fright |access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> has led researchers to use more neutral or accommodating terminology such as "hyperarousal" or the "acute stress response".