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Field setting is defined as any naturally occurring environment in which scientists conduct research.
Deutsch: Feldstudie / Español: Estudio de Campo / Português: Estudo de Campo / Français: Étude de Terrain / Italian: Studio sul Campo
Field Study in the psychology context refers to research conducted outside of a laboratory setting, in a natural environment where behavior and phenomena occur organically. It aims to observe and analyze subjects in their everyday contexts to gather more ecologically valid data.
Field test is defined as a test of physical performance performed in the field or natural setting/environment, that is outside the laboratory ).
Field theory refers to the branch of Physics that studies how energy distributes itself within physical systems. In some systems, such as the solar system, energy can distribute itself freely. In other systems such as an electric circuit, energy must pass through wires, condensers, resistors, and so forth. However, in either type of system, energy will always distribute itself in the simplest, most symmetrical way possible under the circumstances. According to the Gestaltists, the brain is a physical system whose activity could be understood in terms of Field theory.
Deutsch: Kampf-oder-Flucht / Español: Lucha o huida / Português: Luta ou fuga / Français: Combat ou fuite / Italian: Combatti o fuggi
Fight or Flight in the psychology context refers to the acute stress response mechanism that prepares the body to either confront or escape a perceived threat. This physiological reaction is an automatic response to a situation perceived as harmful or threatening to survival.
Fight-or-Flight response refers to physiological changes in the human body that occur in response to a perceived threat, including the secretion of glucose, endorphins, and hormones as well as the elevation of heart rate, metabolism, blood pressure, breathing, and muscle tension. It is a physiological reaction to threat that mobilizes an organism for attacking (fight) or fleeing (flight) an enemy. Moreover, Fight-or-Flight response is a response to threat in which the body is rapidly aroused and motivated via the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system to attack or flee a threatening stimulus; the response was first described by Walter Cannon in 1932.