Round two of the General Adaptation Syndrome will be....... how it applies to my life!!! If you do not know what I am talking about please go back to my blog and read the other post on General Adaptation Syndrome. This is my first application post so please bear with me.
As we were learning this in psychology, I found myself applying it to things in my own life. For example, every time I have a science exam coming up I find myself freaked out and eventually I start not feeling well closer to the date of the exam. The exam is the stressor of course but how do I apply the stages to this scenario? Well of course the alarm stage shows up when I first find out about the test and immediately get worried because of the amount of content and how detailed it is. The resistance stage is up next when I study for the next couple of weeks. The studying is keeping the stressor (exam) in my mind and my body becomes increasingly anxious. Closer to the day of the exam I enter exhaustion. I feel lethargic, upset stomach for no reason and usually a headache or two is thrown in there as well. This is because my body has depleted its resources trying to keep up with the resistance stage and has now become open to bugs, viruses and you guessed it, illness.
Another example of this is my job at Tim Hortons. As I walk out onto the floor on a busy day, I immediately go into the alarm stage with multiple stressors of coworkers, management and the variety of customers I will be encountering. I am guarenteed to go into the resistance stage because I will be dealing with these my entire shift which can last anywhere from 6-8 hours. After a couple hours I begin to notice my knees are hurting, I can be irritable (never to customers) and by the end of my shift I sometimes am almost falling asleep on my feet and there is a bigger chance of getting an order wrong. There are ways to prevent entering the exhaustion faze like drinking caffeine, being cheered up by coworkers or even the simplest solution of all, having a better attitude about it.
Next up is the Atkinson-Shiffrin
Model of memory! See you there!
-Shinara Newton
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