Explanatory Power

• A strength of the GAS Model includes the fact that it considers the physiological response of stress over time and suggests a predictable pattern of responses; easily testable in a lab
• The GAS Model identifies various biological processes that occur as a part of the stress response
• A limitation of the GAS Model is that it does not provide intervention strats to reduce the effect of the neg consequences
• The GAS Model used rats, is old, and does not examine individual differences in responses and does not account for those differences