Seyle - General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
GAS has 3 stages. These include:
Stage 1 - Alarm
Stage 2 - Resistance (body maintains activity)
Stage 3 - Exhaustion
Evaluation
+ Pioneering work recognising stress as being a psychological concept.
+ Major implications for relationship between stress and physical illness - inspired research.
- Only suggests a single, passive response to stressors and doesn't take into account individual differences.
- In initial investigations, Seyle used non-human animals which caused generalisations.
- Can argue there is an overemphasis on physical factors.
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