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AP Psychology 3.5 Motivation and Emotion. What does Selye's general adaptation syndrome suggest?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the stages of [Man eating heinz beans]
- 00:07
gas, what its stages of G-A-S... there go all of our jokes, anyway here's
- 00:14
the question what does Selye's general adaptation syndrome or GAS suggest and
- 00:21
and here are the potential answers....
- 00:29
all right well Hans Selye
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- 00:31
otherwise known as the father of stress which is a nickname we wouldn't [Hans holding a trophy for Father of the Year]
- 00:35
want was the first person to give a scientific explanation for biological
- 00:39
stress he came up with the general adaptation syndrome to explain how the
- 00:43
human body responds to stresses, Selye proposed a three-stage model which [Man rubbing his face]
- 00:48
included alarm when a problematic stimulus was detected resistance when the
- 00:53
body is on alert and prepared for confrontation and exhaustion when the
- 00:57
body's resources have been used and the body needs to return to its resting [Young girl sleeping]
- 01:00
state ok looking at our options remember that general adaptation syndrome shows
- 01:06
how the body responds physiologically to stress so we can assume that any
- 01:09
answer dealing with something other than the biological response the body is [Woman in a gym]
- 01:13
incorrect for example answer A isn't the correct answer but it is definitely true
- 01:17
stress does lead to poor decisions we should know we've been closely
- 01:20
acquainted with many a carton of ice cream after a rough day. Anyway well it is true [Girl deciding which ice cream to buy]
- 01:24
it doesn't deal with anything that would be in the GAS, same thing goes for D and
- 01:28
E neither deals with the way the body reacts to stress, D involves
- 01:32
evolutionary biology and E is obviously a quote stolen from the original Planet
- 01:37
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
- 01:50
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
- 02:02
our correct answer there are three different stages of [Man with his head resting against a wall]
- 02:05
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
- 02:15
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
- 02:25
self-fulfilling thing isn't it?
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