Illness may follow periods of prolonged stress, primarily because stress weakens one's:

The gland(s) producing hormones that regulate growth and also directly activate the adrenal glands is (are) the:

pituitary. gonads. hypothalamus. thyroid.

People tend to fall subject to the impact bias (and not understand that they will usually successfully reduce cognitive dissonance) because reducing cognitive dissonance is

a. a painful process. b. controlled and conscious. c. largely unconscious. d. quick and effortful.