Amy is out hiking when she sees a mountain lion up ahead on the trail. She immediately freezes. This freeze response is an example of an:

Okay. So Amy is out hiking when she sees a mountain lion up ahead on the trail. She immediately freezes. This freeze response is an example of what. So when we have kind of an immediate instinctual behavioral response as a result of an emotion, we call that an action tendency. Right? And we know that when we feel fear, the main action tendency associated with that is freezing. So Amy saw that mountain lion, was obviously afraid of it or appraised it as dangerous, and then that caused this automatic action tendency, this this freezing response. To quickly go through these other ones, so Amy might have appraised the situation. She probably appraised that animal as dangerous, even just unconsciously. However, the appraisal is not the freezing. The appraisal is the cognition that caused the freezing response. So that's why a is incorrect. B is emotion here and the emotion here was fear and fear might have caused the freezing but the fear is not the freeze response itself. So that's why b is incorrect. And then d is emotional trigger which is not the actual language that we would use in psychology. We just use the term action tendency. Alright. So our answer here is, c, action tendency.