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3. At which stage of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vulnerable toillness?

6. While waiting to pay for his weekly groceries at the supermarket, Paul had to wait about 20 minutes in a long line at the checkout because only one cashier was on duty. When he was finally ready to pay, his debit card was declined because he did not have enough money left in his checking account. Because he had left his credit cards at home, he had to place the groceries back into the cart and head home to retrieve a credit card. While driving back to his home, traffic was backed up two miles due to an accident. These events that Paul had to endure are best characterized as ________.

1. Negative effects of stress are most likely to be experienced when an event is perceived as________.

8. Which of the following is not a dimension of job burnout?

2. Between 2006 and 2009, the greatest increases in stress levels were found to occur among ________.

If the pH is 7.40 and the PaCO2 increased from 40 mmHg to 80 mmHg with no change in bases, the expected pH would be:

Solzhenitsyn advises us to live with a steady superiority over life.

Übersetzen Sie auf Englisch: Einige deutsche Universitäten sind sehr alt. Kaiser Karl IV. gründete die erste deutsche Universität im Jahre 1348 in Prag. Prag liegt heute natürlich nicht in Deutschland, sondern in Tschechien. Die zweitälteste deutsche Universität ist in Wien (1365), also auch nicht im heutigen Deutschland. Die älteste Hochschule Deutschlands ist die Universität Heidelberg (1386). Fast so alt ist die Universität Köln (1388). Die Universität Leipzig (1409) feierte im Jahr 2009 ihr 600 jähriges Bestehen. Die Universität Rostock (1419) wird auch bald sechshundert Jahre alt. Es gibt auch einige ziemlich junge Universitäten, über 20 wurden nach  1960 gegründet. Die Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, im Jahre 1993 gegründet, gehört zu den jüngsten Universitäten Deutschlands.

Solzhenitsyn remarks on the irony that among the mix of prisoners and “free” civilians, the prisoners are the ones who are really free.

Extra credit (2.5pt)  which cranial nerve provides sensory innervation by its three facial branches?