Fight or flight
Fight or flight
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General adaptation syndrome is used to describe how someone's body short and long term reaction to stress. This is to see how someone is able to handle their stress.
Hans Selye is the psychologist credited with proposing the general adaptation syndrome. This theory describes the body's response to stress as progressing through three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. It has had a significant impact on understanding the physiological effects of stress.
Space Adaptation Syndrome
resistance phase
alarm stage
It is a type of motion sickness experienced while astronauts adapt to a weightlessness environment.
Dr. Hans Selye was the psychologist who discovered the General Adaptation Syndrome.
General adaptation syndrome, or GAS, is a term used to describe the body's short-term and long-term reactions to stress. There are three stages the alarm reaction, the stage of resistance, and the stage of exhaustion.
He defined stress in 1936 as "the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change". Later in 1979 he explained further that "stress is a 'perception'. It is the demands that are imposed upon us because there are too many alternatives"See more at:http://www.gostress.com/stress-definitions-from-stress-researchers/#sthash.aWh0Mg2n.dpuf