The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s.
The fight-or-flight response (also called the acute stress response ) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
Answer by Edeters. Confidence votes 77. The sympathetic nervous system. The hypothalamus, in close association with the limbic system of the brain. The fight or flight response is the term used for the activation of the sympathetic nervous system.