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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the stages of [Man eating heinz beans]

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gas, what its stages of G-A-S... there go all of our jokes, anyway here's

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the question what does Selye's general adaptation syndrome or GAS suggest and

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and here are the potential answers....

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all right well Hans Selye

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otherwise known as the father of stress which is a nickname we wouldn't [Hans holding a trophy for Father of the Year]

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want was the first person to give a scientific explanation for biological

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stress he came up with the general adaptation syndrome to explain how the

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human body responds to stresses, Selye proposed a three-stage model which [Man rubbing his face]

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included alarm when a problematic stimulus was detected resistance when the

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body is on alert and prepared for confrontation and exhaustion when the

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body's resources have been used and the body needs to return to its resting [Young girl sleeping]

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state ok looking at our options remember that general adaptation syndrome shows

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how the body responds physiologically to stress so we can assume that any

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answer dealing with something other than the biological response the body is [Woman in a gym]

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incorrect for example answer A isn't the correct answer but it is definitely true

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stress does lead to poor decisions we should know we've been closely

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acquainted with many a carton of ice cream after a rough day. Anyway well it is true [Girl deciding which ice cream to buy]

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it doesn't deal with anything that would be in the GAS, same thing goes for D and

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E neither deals with the way the body reacts to stress, D involves

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evolutionary biology and E is obviously a quote stolen from the original Planet

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of the Apes so that just leaves B and C I'll start with C because well as you may

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may have noticed by now we usually do the incorrect ones first well it might [Girl with hands to her mouth surprised]

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be possible to infer that Selye's GAS implies that each body goes through

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the same three stages this is the kind of broad statement you should normally [Animal circus on stage]

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avoid in test situations and the kind usually not found in the world of

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Hungarian endocrinology, with C eliminated we can safely say that B is

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our correct answer there are three different stages of [Man with his head resting against a wall]

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stress; alarm, resistance and exhaustion A-R-E each describing different

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physiological results, Selye's stress model also explains how aging and disease

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are caused by chronic exposure to stress don't keep that in mind but - why try not Man in wheelchair taken away from hospital]

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to stress about it otherwise yeah, that sort of a

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self-fulfilling thing isn't it?

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