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Registering Information: The initial stage where sensory inputs from the environment are detected by sensory receptors.
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Processing Information: The brain's role in organizing and making sense of the sensory inputs.
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Responding to Information: The final stage where the individual reacts based on the processed sensory information.
The survival system is triggered when a person feels under threat this can put someone into a flight fight, freeze or fawn response.
4. The System Stays Activated
The body stays activated or aroused until the threat is over.
5. System deactivates
The body returns to homeostasis, a stage of physiological calmness, once the threat is gone.