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The General Adaptation Syndrome
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Selye described three stages of response to prolonged stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
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An initial surge of mobilization is followed by sustained elevated function and eventually by depleted capacity.
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Selye's model was drawn from animal studies of physical stressors and generalizes imperfectly to psychological ones.