Practice question · Estimate
Cortisol is superb for a two-minute emergency and corrosive over two years. Set the slider to the point in Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome where the body's resistance is at its highest: 0 is the moment the stressor lands, 100 is collapse.
Estimate on a scale from alarm (0) to exhaustion (100).
Hints
- The first thing a shock does is knock resistance below normal, alarm is a dip, not a peak.
- The peak is the long middle stage, where the body is coping successfully and paying for it.
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55 (answers within ±18 count)
Why
Peak resistance sits in the middle, through resistance, the body has adapted and is holding, at a price. That is the cruel part of the curve: the stage that looks like coping is the stage that spends the reserves, and exhaustion is the bill arriving.
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