Question

Hearing ominous footsteps following you late at night on a campus walking path would likely trigger which phase of the general adaptation syndrome?

Answer 1

Alarm

Explanation:

General adaptation syndrome is a three-stage process. It was given by Hans Se-lye. It is also called GAS. He was a medical doctor who experiments on rats.

General adaptation syndrome has three stages

• The alarm reaction stage: This is the first stage and it is the period of initiation cause symptoms in the body of stress. Flight and fight response is the result of this stage. This is the stage make a person either stay or flee from the situation that creates a stressful situation for a person.

• The resistance reaction stage
• The exhaustion reaction stage