We Are Most Likely to Turn to Inappropriate Coping Techniques

question 30

Multiple Choice

We are most likely to turn to inappropriate coping techniques and cling to them rigidly, despite evidence that they are not working, during the ________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

• A) alarm reaction
• B) exhaustion
• C) primary response
• D) resistance

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Definitions:

Translational

Pertaining to the process of translating the sequence of a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule to a sequence of amino acids during protein synthesis.

Posttranscriptional

Pertains to the alterations and processes that RNA molecules undergo after they are transcribed from DNA but before they are translated into proteins.

Transcriptional

Pertaining to transcription, the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to messenger RNA.

Operon

Group of structural and regulating genes that function as a single unit.