When Hans Selye Injected Laboratory Rats with Saline (Salty Water)

question 67

Multiple Choice

When Hans Selye injected laboratory rats with saline (salty water) , what happened to the rats?

• A)Nothing; saline is harmless and only used as a control condition.
• B)Nothing; rats recover quickly from stress because they are not prone to anxiety as humans are.
• C)They developed ulcers, because saline has since been discovered to have negative health consequences.
• D)They developed ulcers, because stress directly affected their physiology.

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