The lack of understanding regarding the stall is not limited to GA or RAA pilots. You don't have to go very far to see that airline pilots do not understand it either e.g. AF447. When I was teaching stalling in Cessnas, particularly the stall in the approach config, I would always reinforce that this is not what a stall will look like when you are in the circuit pulling hard to regain the centreline or mucking around at low level. I would reinforce that the eventual departure from controlled flight would be the same but that the luxury of altitude for the recovery would not.