P: Not all people react with a fight or flight response when faced with danger

E: This is because some people freeze instead, whilst contemplating what to do in the situation

E: Therefore, our reaction to danger is not limited to the fight or flight response, as some humans face an initial "freeze response"

P: Most early research into the fight or flight response was conducted on men

E: This was assumed to be generalisable to women, making the research androcentric

E: This is a weakness as women may potentially act differently in situations of danger to men, highlighting beta bias in this area of psychology

P: The fight or flight response can be seen as deterministic

E: This is because it: States that a certain sequence of events (e.g. the hypothalamus triggering the adrenal gland to release adrenaline), will lead to the fight/flight response, which will cause someone to feel fear, whilst also ignoring psychological processes that occur between this

E: Therefore, making the explanation reductionist and deterministic