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justinmsk

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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



steff9894

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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
a



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