Q 01/05

Which Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist introduced the word "stress" to biology in the 1930s?

A) Claude Bernard

B) Ivan Pavlov

C) Hans Selye

D) Walter Cannon

Answer · why

C) Hans Selye

He spent most of his career in Montreal, and his 1956 bestseller for general readers turned the idea into a household word.

Q 02/05

Before biologists borrowed it, the word "stress" was a technical term in which field?

A) Physics

B) Law

C) Music

D) Theology

Answer · why

A) Physics

In engineering it still means the internal distribution of force within a material, and the biological sense was an analogy that stuck.

Q 03/05

The endocrinologist who introduced "stress" to biology was born in 1907 in which city?

A) Montreal

B) Prague

C) Budapest

D) Vienna

Answer · why

D) Vienna

He was born in Austria-Hungary and later became a fixture of McGill University and the Université de Montréal.

Q 04/05

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

A) Recovery

B) Exhaustion

C) Denial

D) Adaptation

Answer · why

B) Exhaustion

The model was meant to describe any organism's non-specific response to a threat, and its author was blunt that the last stage ends in death if the st...

Q 05/05

What term did the father of stress research coin for positive, beneficial stress?

A) Eustress

B) Prostress

C) Hyperstress

D) Neustress

Answer · why

A) Eustress

The prefix is Greek for good; the unpleasant kind he called distress, and he argued the body's response is the same either way.