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Describe and evaluate Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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Have a little read: ... Describe and evaluate Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) Hans Selye conducted some research into stress from the 1930's until he died in 1982. He thought that short term stress (acute stress) can be adapted by the body because of the 'flight or fight' response which enables us to cope with the demands of the environment. Furthermore he added that prolonged stress (chronic stress) can be very damaging. The way Selye gathered these results was by doing experiments on rats and seeing how they responded to different types of stress. He noticed that there was a pattern in how the rats and hospital patients similarly responded to stress. This pattern was a typical syndrome called 'The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)'. GAS consisted of 3 stages; alarm reaction, resistance stage, and exhaustion. The body returns back to its normal functioning after the alarm reaction and exhaustion stage only happens when stress is prolonged. The first stage of
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