"exposed to a situation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or thing that is subject to some external influence or a particular environment. For example, "The students were exposed to a new situation when they attended the field trip."
Over three years, seven hundred and sixty two 14-month-old Bluefaced Leicester crossbred ewe lambs were individually exposed to a 6-min arena test designed to evaluate the behaviour of sheep exposed to a situation of conflicting motivations (to seek flock mates versus avoid a motionless human).
When a newborn is exposed to a situation likely to generate pain, evaluation and management of the pain is nearly systematic.
The psychological term for this is called the "Mere Exposure Effect". It explains that the more someone is "merely exposed" to a situation that's making them uncomfortable, the more they become desensitized to it, until they reach the point where they're comfortable with it.
As we were interested to evaluate the course over time and determinants of PSDs' course over time and the determinants of PSD change over time, we finally included several clinical trials: this is likely to reduce the ecological validity of our results, as subjects participating in clinical trials are exposed to a situation that is not the same commonly found in daily clinical practice.
I have never been exposed to a situation at all like this.
Here I am, pretending to be of Arabic descent, then pretending to be Javanese, only to find myself exposed to a situation forcing me to go back to my Arab identity -- at least what some perceived as Arab identity -- to assert not my ethnic identity but my identity as Muslim.
VRET is a type of exposure therapy in which the user can be immersed into a computer-generated environment via a head-mount display and exposed to a simulation of a specific feared situation [ 20, 21].
If exposed to a threatening situation, Pistorius is more likely to "fight" than "flight".
Whatever the reason Caroline Dale, the only girl, was exposed to a fairytale situation which she was in no sense ready to justify.
Souza et al. suggest that negative affect seems to worsen the consequences of being exposed to a traumatic situation.
Situational empathy is measured either by asking subjects about their experiences immediately after they were exposed to a particular situation, by studying the "facial, gestural, and vocal indices of empathy-related responding" (Zhou, Valiente, and Eisenberg 2003, 275), or by various physiological measures such as the measurement of heart rate or skin conductance.
