Psychology / Unit 9 Psych 1047 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The General Adaptation Syndrome
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The idea
Selye described three stages of response to prolonged stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
In practice
An initial surge of mobilization is followed by sustained elevated function and eventually by depleted capacity.
Where people slip
Selye's model was drawn from animal studies of physical stressors and generalizes imperfectly to psychological ones.
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