In all honesty, do you think VCAA will accept both resistance and exhaustion?

[jinny1]

the more i think about it the more  i think it is exhaustion..

After six weeks of this workload she developed a severe tension
headache by the end of almost every working day. After a few days, Tasha's headaches went away although she
was still working long hours in the busy surgery.

here Tasha is in the stage of resistance, due to stress she has developed common headaches (not as severe as flus that took her a week to recover) but her body was able to overcome that headache. However the stressor (long hours) have not bee dealt with so the body will now slowly go down to exhaustion until she caught the flu.

im sure it says in the textbook that if the stressor is not dealt with in the resistance stage then the body will inevitably go to Exhaustion..

[Visionz]

Seems a lot of you put exhaustion down. A lot of you are refusing to believe my logic too.

[hawks08]

the more i think about it the more  i think it is exhaustion..

im sure it says in the textbook that if the stressor is not dealt with in the resistance stage then the body will inevitably go to Exhaustion..

i definitely remember that that so it would have to be exhaustion

[psych93]

No no don't get me wrong I totally accept you're logic too, I'm morally opposed to narrow-mindedness
Although I'm really hoping that its exhaustion !
But honestly, it could go either way
or hopefully both!

[Hongld]

No no don't get me wrong I totally accept you're logic too, I'm morally opposed to narrow-mindedness
Although I'm really hoping that its exhaustion !
But honestly, it could go either way
or hopefully both!

They did do that before they may do it again. It depends on how the person interprets the question really

[jinny1]

yea like i said...there are mostly no definitives in psych...

it is learnt from observations and is not entirely objective...

my guess is it will accept both like they did in the past as long as an appropriate answer accompanies it...

[8039]

I'm positive it will only be resistance stage. Since she was int he stage of fighting the stressor, she was prone to becoming ill. When she couldn't get up... THAT'S when she was in stage 3.

[bomb]

Seems a lot of you put exhaustion down. A lot of you are refusing to believe my logic too.

I believe your logic, but what I'm trying to say is theres no way only one answer can be correct. There is logic to support both cases.

When she got the flu and stopped work, had she been in resistance then she should have been out of GAS after a week as she got to spend time with her baby and avoid work stessors, evidently she was still in the GAS as she still wasn't able to work after a week.

Seeing as she was able to deal with the stressor for a short while, that it consistent with the end of the GAS graph where there is some resistance to the stressor.

Exhaustion does NOT start when a person gives up, it is quite a bit earlier. That is what I'm trying to say, so when she couldn't get up doesn't necessarily mean she started exhaustion then.

[jinny1]

i dont think year 12 exams are this pedantic in the answers.... its not like your studying to get masters in Psychology...

we never went into details for GAS so both answers will be accepted

[minilunchbox]

i dont think year 12 exams are this pedantic in the answers

LOL!

[Glockmeister]

i dont think year 12 exams are this pedantic in the answers

LOL!

umm... sorry to disappoint, but I think they will - my experience anyway.

[jinny1]

well then sorry you just lost a mark

lol

[psych93]

I asked my teacher today... he put down exhaustion when he first did it aswell
Hmmm for some reason I don't think they'll accept both
That would've just made it so much easier to get those 3 marks- and that goes against eveything VCAA are about
they always want to make it harder!

Although... no offence I think the evidence is stronger for exhaustion

[Visionz]

if its exhaustion then at what point was she in resistance? How can she beat the flu during exhaustion?

[psych93]

So you're saying that once we're in exhaustion we can't ever recover from any illness? I don't know something seems shifty about that

Um personally I think she was in the resistance stage whilst we was coping with the stress of motherhood, work, subsequent headaches... and then those stressors remained over a prolonged period of time and weren't dealth with properly causing her to inevitably enter teh exhaustion stage (when she contracted the illness).