Adelaida hears a rattling sound as she hikes through the desert. Her muscles tense and her blood pressure rises. According to Hans Selye, she is in the ___________ phase
a) chronic stress
b) alarm
c) exhaustion
d) resistance
ANS: B, In the alarm phase, the sympathetic nervous system responds to the threatening sound by activating and causing the adrenal glands to release hormones that increase heart rate and blood pressure.
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b. She was given cortisol when taking the dexamethasone suppression test. c. She does not have enough of the enzyme monoamine oxidase. d. There is excessive reuptake of various neurotransmitters in her brain.
A child has a vocabulary of between 200 to 300 words. You can guess the child is about:
a. 6 months of age b. 12 months of age c. 18 months of age d. 24 months of age
The action potential is directly created when ____
a. ?vesicles in the axon release neurotransmitters b. ?myelin is produced by the cell body c. ?sodium (Na+) ions flood into the axon d. ?DNA is released into the synapse
__________ fat generally comes from meat and dairy products and is solid at room temperature
A) Unsaturated B) Saturated C) Polyunsaturated D) Partially hydrogenated