2006-09-27 08:18:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The amydala in the limbic system would be firing hot...this is an emotion center. The left pre-frontal lobes would be trying to control the emotion and logically think about what to do. The right pre-frontal lobes would be trying to imagine what the person with the gun was up to. The sensory strip in the cortex would be reporting body signals such as rapid heart-rate, adrenaline, tense muscles. The occipital lobes would be reporting visual images of the surroundings.
2006-09-27 09:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First there is panic. Then you try to reason with the person at the other end of the gun. If you succeed and you can get the gun from them, then panic sets in and you try to figure out what to do next. (I ran next door to the neighbors house with the loaded gun). Then after it is all done the crying starts.
That's what I went through when I woke up to a gun pointed at my head 22 years ago. You may be different though.
2006-09-27 15:30:54 · answer #2 · answered by nana4dakids 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Panic. Death is imminent therefore the brain will find an immediate solution to evade it. There are a few available immediate solutions I can only assume, and they are:
1) Fight back
2) Beg for mercy
3) Surrender (like standing still and just waiting for what's going to happen next)
4) Collapse
2006-09-27 16:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mike N. D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
having had a gun pointed at my head at close range, of flight or fight, flight was not an option. so fight came into actions via words. if you are talking synapse or neurotransmitter type of brain activity i can't answer that. adrenaline flows that's for sure.
2006-09-27 15:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by hicktowngal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think my colon would activate, not my brain.
2006-09-27 15:53:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋