AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Exhaustion. The correct answer is B. (A tend-and-befriend response). Explanation: Oxytocin is a hormone which is released when people, for example, cuddle.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most well-known situations, which are related to oxytocin release, are labor and breastfeeding, when oxytocin stimulates uterine contractions and milk ejection respectively.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women are more likely to respond to stress through tending and befriending than men. Paralleling this behavioral sex difference, estrogen enhances the effects of oxytocin, whereas androgens inhibit oxytocin release.

Detailed explanation-4: -Researchers have established that in response to a stressor, both males and females have an activation of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system which causes the release of oxytocin, vasopressin, and corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) from the hypothalamus.

Detailed explanation-5: -Recently, another pattern of threat reactions, the tend-and-befriend response, has been explored in relation to a different hormone, oxytocin.