For the past six months, Dahlia's job has been extremely stressful, but she doesn't feel that she can quit because she needs the money for tuition. Dahlia has been having chronic headaches and is behind in all of her classes. According to Hans Selye, Dahlia is in the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

A) alarm
B) collapse
C) exhaustion
D) resistance

Answer: C
Rationale: According to Selye's concept of the general adaptation syndrome, the third and final stage is exhaustion, in which your physical resources and your physiological stress response declines, making it difficult to continue resisting the effects of stress. Collapse is not one of the stages identified by Selye.

Psychology

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