as first identified by Hans Selye, the body's stress response, which includes the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. (565)
A consistent pattern of responses to stress that consists of three stages; alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage. go to glossary index
Hans Selye's model to describe the biological reaction of an organism to sustained and unrelenting stress; there are several stages, culminating in death in extreme circumstances.
the response of the body to physiological stress.
adapting to external stressors seems to involve a set of similar reactions. The discovery of the general adaptation syndrome established stress as a distinct area of research. However, seeing stress as essentially a response is criticized for being too narrow and excluding a number of other important facets of stress such as the impact of an individual's ‘appraisal' of a stressor.
The sequence of physiological reactions to prolonged and intense stress. The sequence consists of the alarm reaction, the state of resistance, and the stage of exhaustion.
A three-stage process (alarm, resistance, and exhaustion) by which the body responds to stress.
set of wide ranging body changes due to high level of stress over a prolonged period of time and can lead to emotional disturbances, cardiovascular and renal diseases, asthma and other diseased states; described by hans selye
