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KimWrice

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Mike is a single dad who has been working 65-hour weeks while caring for his aging father. Yesterday his son was in a car accident and totaled the car. Mike is on the verge of experiencing what?
 
  A) chronic stress syndrome
  B) the fight-or-flight response
  C) general adaptation syndrome
  D) allostatic overload

Question 2

The second wave of the alarm phase begins in what region of the brain?
 
  A) pituitary gland
  B) hypothalamus
  C) frontal lobe
  D) cerebral cortex



bblaney

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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