Give an example of a highly stressful circumstance that you have experienced (or you may create a fictitious scenario) and discuss the various physiological changes that would occur at each stage of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome as a result of that event
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Student responses will vary based on their own scenarios, but their responses should include accurate depictions of the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages of the general adaptation syndrome model.
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