Q 01/05

When Hans Selye's injected lab animals all fell ill in the same way, what did he first believe he had discovered?

A) A new virus

B) A new vitamin

C) A new hormone

D) A new poison

Answer · why

C) A new hormone

A new hormone. Then every irritant he tried, from cold to plain injury, left the animals with the same damage, stomach ulcers included, and he saw tha...

Q 02/05

Stanford's Robert Sapolsky spent decades studying stress in which wild animals in Kenya?

A) Baboons

B) Chimpanzees

C) Meerkats

D) Hyenas

Answer · why

A) Baboons

Baboons. He called them the perfect subjects: they live in big, complex troops and have hours of daylight to spare, which, he wrote, they devote to be...

Q 03/05

A polygraph looks for lies in breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and which other sign of stress?

A) Blinking

B) Blushing

C) Voice pitch

D) Sweating

Answer · why

D) Sweating

Sweating, read as a change in the skin's electrical conductance. Fear or plain nerves can raise all four signals in a truthful person, so a US Nationa...

Q 04/05

In the general adaptation syndrome, what final stage follows the alarm and resistance phases?

A) Recovery

B) Exhaustion

C) Denial

D) Compensation

Answer · why

B) Exhaustion

Exhaustion. If the stressor never lets up, the body's reserves for resisting it finally run out, and it falls victim to the very thing it has been hol...

Q 05/05

Which term did Hans Selye popularise for positive, beneficial stress?

A) Eustress

B) Prostress

C) Hyperstress

D) Neustress

Answer · why

A) Eustress

Eustress joins the Greek eu-, good, to stress, by contrast with distress. Selye argued the body answers a happy demand and a harmful one in the same w...