After Natter narrowly avoids a car accident, he notices that his heart is beating rapidly and he feels a rush from the adrenaline in his bloodstream. Natter is most likely in the ____ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
a. resistance
b. alarm reaction
c. adaptation
d. exhaustion
Question 2
Cheranita is experiencing the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome. An environmental stressor has triggered a process in her brain in which the ____ activates the sympathetic branch of the ____ nervous system, which stimulates the adrenal gland, which then secretes adrenaline.
a. hypothalamus; autonomic
b. medulla oblongata; somatic
c. hypothalamus; somatic
d. medulla oblongata; autonomic
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