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.
One of the most critical things that occurs during a fight or flight response is a massive increase in your heart rate. Under normal resting conditions, your sympathetic nervous system's actions on your heart are not as significant as your parasympathetic nervous system 's effects.