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

[Visionz]

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).

Then when was she in the alarm reaction stage?

[Glockmeister]

I'm actually thinking it is resistance stage now, having done the question - the headache is where she was having the alarm stage (and why they disappeared, it reached the countershock.

[jinny1]

you dont get flus in resistance...you are much more likely to be in exhaustion when you get severe flus...

resistance was during the headaches etc...and most of the time before that where she was battling the stressor...but even after many weeks of resisting this stressor and the body went in to exhaustion...

resistance is just the process of enduring the stressor which she has been for weeks....but when it is prolong and that stressor is not overcome then the body goes to exhaustion

[jinny1]

I'm actually thinking it is resistance stage now, having done the question - the headache is where she was having the alarm stage (and why they disappeared, it reached the countershock.

that wouldnt make sense as it had been over 6 weeks after the intial stressor was detected

[minilunchbox]

I'm actually thinking it is resistance stage now, having done the question - the headache is where she was having the alarm stage (and why they disappeared, it reached the countershock.

that wouldnt make sense as it had been over 6 weeks after the intial stressor was detected

There's really no set timeline for GAS though, is there?

[psych93]

um so I just read the textbook
Alarm reaction occurs when the perosn first becomes aware of the stressor
so alarm reaction would have occured when the stress from work and missing her child first started to  her a real impact on her (after coming back from a 6 month break)
her symp. NS would have been activated shortly after, releasing stress hormones to deal with the stress
causing weakening of the immune system and less resistance to other stressors (headaches)
then it was maintained for a prolonged period of time
and then her body couldn't do it anymore
and she entered exhaustion because body no longer could fight with the stress of virus that had entered her body

[jinny1]

Alarm reaction stage is the instance that stressor is detected..and we know that countershock and resistance stage has been initiated due to the fact that her body wouldve had to increased its arousal level (release hormones,heartrate,blood pressure)...it is the prolonged exposure to that sort of physiological arousal that causes the body to goto exhaustion..which has occured here

[psych93]

the alarm reaction isn't when she had the headaches
the symp. NS would have been already been activated during the 6 weeks before her headaches to her her cope with the stress of motherhood and work
and then resiatnce was low to other stressors such as headaches but she could still cope
and then the virus entered her body which pushed her over the edge
 

I'm actually thinking it is resistance stage now, having done the question - the headache is where she was having the alarm stage (and why they disappeared, it reached the countershock.

[Visionz]

No more discussion on this.

Everyone is getting stubborn in defending the answer they put down. Close the thread please.

[psych93]

hahaha true as !
i don't know how to close a thread though
so we'll just agree to disagree and hope for the best

[Hongld]

You can lock the thread to disable reply box

[Glockmeister]

I'm actually thinking it is resistance stage now, having done the question - the headache is where she was having the alarm stage (and why they disappeared, it reached the countershock.

that wouldnt make sense as it had been over 6 weeks after the intial stressor was detected

There's really no set timeline for GAS though, is there?

No there isn't - not at least I've learnt anyway.

Also, the problem of VCE Psych and in particular Selye, is that it's pretty outdated and it's not the current scientific understanding of stress (although it's kinda useful). When we talk about stress at university, you talk more about the biological aspects (in terms of specific brain structures) that release the various hormones involved in the stress response. And you get a concept known as the Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis which is a regulator of stress hormones.

[mikee65]

I said resistance.

My reasoning is that she dealt with the intial stressor - work and subsequent headaches. But because her immune system was weakened she could not resist the subsequent stressor - the flu.
The question stipulates when she contracted the flu. I think she hit exhaustion when she could no longer get out of bed, AFTER recovering from the flu. yea your right, i said resistance also seemed more appropriate

I think resistance is more right. They could accept exhaustion provided your reasoning is sound. At the same time I dont think itd be completely unfair if they gave those who said exhaustion no marks.