A nursing instructor is lecturing on stress and the stress response to her pathophysiology class. The instructor talks about the body's physiologic response to stress
What would this instructor cite as the longest-acting phase of the physiologic response and its cause?
A) Sympathetic-adrenal-medullary response caused by persistent stress
B) Hypothalamic-pituitary response caused by acute stress
C) Sympathetic-adrenal-medullary response caused by acute stress
D) Hypothalamic-pituitary response caused by persistent stress
Ans: D
Feedback: The longest-acting phase of the physiologic response, which is more likely to occur in persistent stress, involves the hypothalamic-pituitary pathway, not the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary pathway.
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