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charl mate, your notes are literally A GEM!!! Every concept is literally explained so well, so thank you again
OUTSTANDING WORK!!!

      yeah sorry, i just checked and it says its pending approval :/ hopefully it'll be up shortly?

      6 days later

      hey! the notes are up now 🙂

      2 months later

      hello!
      @dino (and anyone else! 🙂 )
      I'm currently working on practice exam questions, and this question stumped me lol. Am I on the right track with my responses?

      Question 1a (3 marks)
      Bob works for a highly competitive and demanding advertising company with a stressful work environment. When he first started this job, he was surprised at the additional tasks he was required to complete on a daily basis. After many months, Bob started experiencing headaches and frequently caught colds.
      Identify what stage of Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome Bob was in when he started frequently catching colds. Justify your response.

      My response:
      __Bob was on the verge of the exhaustion stage. As he worked in a highly competitive and stressful work environment, he had constant high levels of cortisol. This started to show first symptoms of the exhaustion stage, with him frequently having headaches and catching colds.

      Q1b) 2 marks
      After working in this highly stressful environment for many years, Bob was diagnosed with a heart condition that required surgery.
      Explain which stage of Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome Bob was experiencing when he was diagnosed with a heart condition.

      As Bob already had symptoms of colds and headaches, and the Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal gland (HPA) axis had already provided high levels of cortisol, these sources were now depleted. He became fully vulnerable to illness, suffering from a heart condition. This became the exhaustion stage.

        Arielle I think you're definitely on the right track, but maybe for the first one I'd say the resistance phase instead of on the verge of exhaustion, and maybe explain what cortisol is and why it's important/relevant to his symptoms.
        Also for the exhaustion stage I'd maybe just mention how the body loses ability to cope with stress due to the depletion of resources caused by the effects of cortisol, as the key parts of the exhaustion stage is their low resistance to stress due to depleted resources and the exhausted body.
        You definitely had really good answers though imo, especially referencing the HPA axis in the second question.
        Keep in mind that I'm also another year 12 psych student this year so I can't say exactly how VCAA would mark these but that's personally how I'd add to these answers, hope this helps

            Rey_of_sunshine thank you for your feedback! Like yeah I was slightly confused as part A it mentions that he gets colds and headaches, and only afterwards did I see that part B involved a heart condition, and the exhaustion stage is where the body is depleted of its resources so I assumed that he was in that phase already in part A.

                Arielle Yeah, I noticed that too because I think edrolo used these questions as an example, I think it's mainly the exhaustion phase if it's been long term or they mention feelings of tiredness/loss of concentration or other issues in ability to appear to function as normal

                  Arielle hey our teacher always said that vcaa likes to trick us and put sicknesses so students will assume it's exhaustion however it is very rarely exhaustion stage in a Q, try and see how extreme the wording is - heart condition in comparison to coughs and colds. i do remember in resistance stage the immune system is weakened due to prolonged high levels of cortisol and this increases suceptibility to more minor diseases however heart diseases stems from the long-term strain and effects of cortisol which have been placed on the body
                  i agree with rey64 for the most part, you're on the right track just work on identifying the symptoms and grouping them, maybe making a table or flashcards could help you so when you see a practice Q you can immediately identify
                  hope that helps!

                      dino thank you so much! Thanks for the tip with vcaa as well! Yeah now that I think about it a heart condition is much more serious, so resistance stage would make sense! Yeah I might try to make some flashcards when I get the chance 🙂 my 1st SAC is in 2 weeks, on March 5th. So trying to get lots of practise questions set in my mind! 😁 Edit: like just doing lots of practise questions to know what to expect, not like memorise exact formation haha

                        7 days later

                        does anyone have any practice sacs for unit 3 aos1?

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