Jewell was going through some papers and found an unopened mortgage statement for her house that was 60 days overdue. She immedi
ately experienced an acceleration in her heart rate and a queasy feeling in her stomach. Jewell has just entered the ______ stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
The General Adaptation Syndrome, proposed by Hans Selye, is a process or concept that describes the response of the body to a stress causing stressor. It consists of three stages: nonspecific mobilization or the alarm phase, a resistance phase, and exhaustion or recovery phase.
The alarm phase is the first stage of this concept, which is further divided into the shock phase and the antishock phase. This stage is characterized by <u>elevated blood pressure and heartbeat, fight-or-flight response, production of adrenaline and increased muscular tonus.</u>
<u>Therefore, Jewell is in the </u><u>Alarm stage</u><u> of the General Adaptation Syndrome.</u>
