AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -This stage is the result of prolonged or chronic stress. Struggling with stress for long periods can drain your physical, emotional, and mental resources to the point where your body no longer has strength to fight stress. You may give up or feel your situation is hopeless.

Detailed explanation-2: -After an extended period of stress, the body goes into the final stage of GAS, known as the exhaustion stage. At this stage, the body has depleted its energy resources by continually trying but failing to recover from the initial alarm reaction stage.

Detailed explanation-3: -[18] This syndrome is divided into the alarm reaction stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage. The alarm reaction stage refers to the initial symptoms of the body under acute stress and the “fight or flight” response.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are three stages to stress: the alarm stage, the resistance stage and the exhaustion stage.

Detailed explanation-5: -These changes occur in stages: an alarm reaction (also called fight-or-flight), a resistance phase (in which your body recovers), and a period of exhaustion. Enduring stress has physical and mental effects on the body.