B.A. PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND ENGLISH Lecture Notes - Thymus, Lymph Node, Duodenum
13 May 2022
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In the first phase, alarm, the body becomes mobilised to meet the threat. Third phase: the third phase, exhaustion, occurs if the person fails to overcome the threat and is incapable of showing further resistance. Nonetheless, men, too, show social responses to stress, and so elements of the theory apply to men as well. Criticism of models discussed: both regarded the individual as automatically responding to an external stressor and described stress within a straightforward framework. They therefore did not address the issue of individual variability. stimulus response: psychological factors were given a minimal role, both also described the physiological response to stress as consistent. This response (changes in physiology are the same regardless of the nature of the stressor): therefore, these two models described individuals as passive and as responding automatically to their external world. Selye assessed stress as an outcome, that is, the endpoint of the general adaptation syndrome.
