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.
